β-diversity Patterns of Bird Communities in Natural Protected Areas in Anhui by Separating the Turnover and Nestedness Components
β-diversity Patterns of Bird Communities in Natural Protected Areas in Anhui by Separating the Turnover and Nestedness Components
Kai Dong, Huidong Xu, Yongmin Li*, Jianchun Zhang, Weigen Wang and Dongwei Li
Fig. 1.
Location of the 44 study regions in the protected areas of Anhui province, China. The region was divided into part I (Huaibei region), part II (Jianghuai region), and part III (Jiangnan region) by Huai River and Yangtze River.
Table I.
Dissimilarity index and formula of measurement to determine β-diversity.
Fig. 2.
Distribution of βsim (βjtu) and βsne (βjne) based on βsor (βjac) on the Sorensen and Jaccard pair algorithm, the upper half represent βsim (turnover), the lower half represent βsne (nested).
