The taxonomic distinctness measure of biodiversity: Weighting of step lengths between hierarchical levels

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 184, Issue , 1999, Pages 21-29

  Clarke, K R ^a   Warwick, R M ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Island biogeography; Isles of Scilly; Mainland Britain; Nematodes; Taxonomic distinctness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0033612682     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps184021     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Austen MC, Warwick RM (1989) Comparison of univariate and multivariate aspects of estuarine meiobenthic community structure. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 29:23-42
2. Clarke KR, Warwick RM (1994) Change in marine communities: an approach to statistical analysis and interpretation. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth
3. Clarke KR, Warwick RM (1998) A taxonomic distinctness index and its statistical properties. J Appl Ecol 35:523-531
4. Gee JM, Warwick RM (1994a) Metazoan community structure in relation to the fractal dimensions of marine macroalgae. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 103:141-150
5. Gee JM, Warwick RM (1994b) Body-size distribution in a marine metazoan community and the fractal dimensions of macroalgae. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 178:247-259
6. Hall SJ, Greenstreet SP (1998) Taxonomic distinctness and diversity measures: responses in marine fish communities. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 166:227-229
7. Harvey LA (1969) The marine fauna and flora of the Isles of Scilly. The islands and their ecology. J Nat Hist 3:3-18
8. Jayasree K (1976) Systematics and ecology of free-living marine nematodes from polluted intertidal sand in Scotland. PhD thesis, University of Aberdeen
9. Lambshead PJD (1986) Sub-catastrophic sewage and industrial waste contamination as revealed by marine nematode faunal analysis. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 29:247-260
10. Lawton J (1998) Small is beautiful, and very strange. Oikos 81:3-5
11. Marine Biological Association (1957) Plymouth marine fauna, 3rd edn. Marine Biological Association, Plymouth
12. Nei M (1996) Phylogenetic analysis in molecular evolutionary genetics. Annu Rev Genet 30:371-403
13. Platt HM, Warwick RM (1980) The significance of free-living nematodes to the littoral ecosystem. In: Irvine DEG, Farnham WF (eds) The shore environment. Vol 2: Ecosystems. Academic Press, Cambridge, p 729-759
14. Platt HM, Warwick RM (1983) Freeliving marine nematodes. Part I: British enoplids. Synopses of the British fauna no. 28. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
15. Platt HM, Warwick RM (1988) Freeliving marine nematodes. Part II: British Chromadorida. Synopses of the British fauna no. 38. Brill, Leiden
16. Rogers SI, Clarke KR, Reynolds JD (in press) The taxonomic distinctness of coastal bottom-dwelling fish communities of the Northeast Atlantic. J Anim Ecol
17. Somerfield PJ, Gee JM, Widdicombe S (1993) The use of meiobenthos in marine pollution monitoring programmes. Plymouth Marine Laboratory Miscellaneous Publication LIB-33A+LIB-33B, Plymouth
18. Somerfield PJ, Gee JM, Warwick RM (1994a) Soft sediment meiofaunal community structure in relation to a long-term heavy metal gradient in the Fal estuary system. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 105:79-88
19. Somerfield PJ, Gee JM, Warwick RM (1994b) Benthic community structure in relation to an instantaneous discharge of waste water from a tin mine. Mar Pollut Bull 28: 363-369
20. Somerfield PJ, Rees HL, Warwick RM (1995) Interrelationships in community structure between shallow-water marine meiofauna and macrofauna in relation to dredgings disposal. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 127:103-112
21. Somerfield PJ, Olsgard F, Carr MR (1997) A further examination of two new taxonomic distinctness measures. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 154:303-306
22. Van der Spoel S (1994) A biosystematic basis for pelagic biodiversity. Bijdr Dierkd 64:3-31
23. Warwick RM (1971) Nematode associations in the Exe estuary. J Mar Biol Assoc UK 51:439-454
24. Warwick RM (1977) The structure and seasonal fluctuations of phytal marine nematode associations on the Isles of Scilly. In: Keegan BF, O'Ceidigh P, Boaden PJS (eds) Biology of benthic organisms. Pergamon, Oxford, p 577-585
25. Warwick RM, Buchanan JB (1970) The meiofauna off the coast of Northumberland. I: The structure of the nematode population. J Mar Biol Assoc UK 50:129-146
26. Warwick RM, Clarke KR (1991) A comparison of some methods for analyzing changes in benthic community structure. J Mar Biol Assoc UK 71:225-244
27. Warwick RM, Clarke KR (1995) New 'biodiversity' measures reveal a decrease in taxonomic distinctness with increasing stress. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 129:301-305
28. Warwick RM, Clarke KR (1998) Taxonomic distinctness and environmental assessment. J Appl Ecol 35:532-543
29. Warwick RM, Coles JW (1977) The marine flora and fauna of the Isles of Scilly. Free-living Nematoda. J Nat Hist 11: 393-407
30. Warwick RM, Platt HM, Somerfield PJ (1998) Freeliving marine nematodes. Part III: British Monhysterida. Synopses of the British fauna no. 53. Field Studies Council, Shrewsbury