Table 1 Community metrics, regions and their abbreviations evaluated in this manuscript.

From: Long-term data reveal unimodal responses of ground beetle abundance to precipitation and land use but no changes in taxonomic and functional diversity

Community metrics

1

SPR

Species richness

1

SHA

Shannon Index

1

SIM

Simpson Index

1

EVE

Evenness (Pielous' J)

1

Evar

Evar Evenness

2

TUR

Turnover

2

APP

Species appearance

2

DIS

Species disappearance

2

SERa

Species exchange rate

3

ABU

Activity density (abundance)

4

SPE

Activity density of habitat specialists

4

GEN

Activity density of habitat generalists

4

PRE

Activity density of predators

4

IMA

Activity density of hibernating beetles as imagines

4

LAR

Activity density of hibernating beetles as larvae

4

WIN

Activity density of winged beetles

4

DIM

Activity density of dimorphic beetles

5

FRic

Functional richness

5

FEve

Functional evenness

5

FDiv

Functional divergence

5

FDis

Functional dispersion

Regions

RMO

Rhine-Main-Observatory (LTER-site)

Ruhr

Ruhr River

Elbe

Biosphere reserve Flusslandschaft Elbe Brandenburg

CHO

Biosphere reserve Schorfheide-Chorin (LTER-site)

SPW

Biosphere reserve Spreewald

  1. 1 = taxonomic diversity, 2 = taxonomic turnover, 3 = activity density 4 = functional traits, 5 = functional diversity.