A new tool to quantify biodiversity change under landscape transformation.

ABSTRACT: Identifying how species richness or diversity changes with different proportions of natural and anthropized environments in the landscape is important for landscape management for conservation. Here, we propose a new method to assess biodiversity changes in landscapes with varying proportions of habitat types. The algorithm is based on the resampling of individuals recorded in different habitats considering both the proportion occupied by each habitat in the landscape and the number of individuals recorded in each habitat. The diversity is assessed based on the sampled individuals. If a functional/phylogenetic tree or distance matrix is provided, the function returns the functional or phylogenetic richness values. This procedure is replicated a number of times with different proportions of

SUBMITTER: Hilario RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11725996 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature