The perils of measuring biodiversity responses to habitat change using mixed metrics

dc.contributor.authorLiu, Mingxin
dc.contributor.authorMiao, Xinran
dc.contributor.authorHua, Fangyuan
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-21T02:07:19Z
dc.date.available2024-08-21T02:07:19Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.date.updated2024-05-12T08:15:38Z
dc.description.abstractExisting quantitative syntheses on how biodiversity responds to anthropogenichabitat change appear to sometimes mix different biodiversity metrics in drawing inferences. This “mixing metrics” practice, if prevalent, would considerably bias our understanding of biodiversity responses and render uninterpretable conclusions. However, the prevalence of this practice remains unknown, and the bias it potentially renders has not been empirically assessed. We fill this gap by conducting a systematic literature assessment of existing syntheses on bio-diversity responses to habitat change, along with an analysis of a global database specifically on forest restoration. We found that the “mixing metrics” practice was used in almost a quarter of existing syntheses across a wide range of ecosystem and habitat change types. This practice predictably altered the quantitative,and frequently even the qualitative, inferences on biodiversity responses to forestrestoration, in ways contingent on the composition of metrics mixed. We call on future syntheses to be cognizant of the difference in metric meaning and behaviors, and to avoid mixing different metrics in studying biodiversity responses to habitat change
dc.description.sponsorshipMinistry of Science and Technology ofChina, Grant/Award Number:2022YFF0802300; National NaturalScience Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers: 32122057,32201418
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1755-263X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733715048
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenanceThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided theoriginal work is properly cited.© 2023 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals LLC
dc.publisherWiley Interscience
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution License
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.sourceConservation Letters
dc.subjectbiodiversity metrics
dc.subjectconservation intervention
dc.subjectforest restoration
dc.subjectgeometric mean
dc.subjectspeciesabundance
dc.subjectterrestrial ecosystems
dc.subjectquantitative synthesis
dc.titleThe perils of measuring biodiversity responses to habitat change using mixed metrics
dc.typeJournal article
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4
local.contributor.affiliationLiu, Mingxin, Institute of Ecology and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
local.contributor.affiliationMiao, Xinran, College of Science, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationHua, Fangyuan, Peking University
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidMiao, Xinran, u6529022
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor310400 - Evolutionary biology
local.identifier.absfor410401 - Conservation and biodiversity
local.identifier.absseo180603 - Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB42067
local.identifier.citationvolume16
local.identifier.doi10.1111/conl.12959
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85161398122
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154
local.publisher.urlhttps://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
local.type.statusPublished Version
publicationvolume.volumeNumber16

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