Evenness-richness scatter plots: a graphical, intuitive approach to alpha diversity analysis
Gauthier, J.; Derome, N.
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Shannons diversity index is a popular alpha diversity metric because it estimates both richness and evenness in a single equation. However, since its value is dependent of both those parameters, there is theoretically an infinite number of richness / evenness value combinations translating into the same index score. By decoupling both components measured by Shannons index, two communities having identical indices can be differentiated by mapping richness and evenness coordinates on a scatter plot. In such graphs, confidence ellipses would allow testing significant differences between groups of samples. Multivariate statistical tests such as PERMANOVA can be performed on distance matrices calculated from richness and evenness coordinates and detect statistically significant differences that would have remained unforeseen otherwise.
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