The perils of measuring biodiversity responses to habitat change using mixed metrics
dc.contributor.author | Liu, Mingxin | |
dc.contributor.author | Miao, Xinran | |
dc.contributor.author | Hua, Fangyuan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-21T02:07:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-08-21T02:07:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-05-12T08:15:38Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Existing 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.sponsorship | Ministry of Science and Technology ofChina, Grant/Award Number:2022YFF0802300; National NaturalScience Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers: 32122057,32201418 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 1755-263X | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733715048 | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
dc.provenance | This 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.publisher | Wiley Interscience | |
dc.rights.license | Creative Commons Attribution License | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.source | Conservation Letters | |
dc.subject | biodiversity metrics | |
dc.subject | conservation intervention | |
dc.subject | forest restoration | |
dc.subject | geometric mean | |
dc.subject | speciesabundance | |
dc.subject | terrestrial ecosystems | |
dc.subject | quantitative synthesis | |
dc.title | The perils of measuring biodiversity responses to habitat change using mixed metrics | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 4 | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Liu, 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.affiliation | Miao, Xinran, College of Science, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Hua, Fangyuan, Peking University | |
local.contributor.authoremail | repository.admin@anu.edu.au | |
local.contributor.authoruid | Miao, Xinran, u6529022 | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.absfor | 310400 - Evolutionary biology | |
local.identifier.absfor | 410401 - Conservation and biodiversity | |
local.identifier.absseo | 180603 - Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | a383154xPUB42067 | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 16 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1111/conl.12959 | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-85161398122 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | a383154 | |
local.publisher.url | https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
publicationvolume.volumeNumber | 16 |
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