Optimal inventorying and monitoring of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity.

ABSTRACT: Comparable data is essential to understand biodiversity patterns. While assemblage or community inventorying requires comprehensive sampling, monitoring focuses on as few components as possible to detect changes. Quantifying species, their evolutionary history, and the way they interact requires studying changes in taxonomic (TD), phylogenetic (PD) and functional diversity (FD). Here we propose a method for the optimization of sampling protocols for inventorying and monitoring assemblages or communities across these three diversity dimensions taking sampling costs into account. We used Iberian spiders and Amazonian bats as two case-studies. The optimal combination of methods for inventorying and monitoring required optimizing the accumulation curve of α-diversity and minimizing the differe

SUBMITTER: Cardoso P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11290677 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature