Fig. 3
From: Impacts of past abrupt land change on local biodiversity globally
Reduced compositional similarity between sites with and without abrupt land change. Mean similarity in species assemblage composition (Sørensen similarity index) calculated between pairs of sites within the same study and land-use category without (UC) and with an abrupt land change of (a, c) varying shifts in magnitude, or (b, d) loss or gain in EVI (minus signs/red and plus signs/blue) and time passed between abrupt land change and biodiversity sampling (axis labels as in Fig. 2); Colours, from purple to brown (in a, b), indicate more or less similar assemblage composition with unchanged sites on average relative to comparisons among unchanged sites. Numbers (in a, b) indicate the total number of studies for which pairwise comparisons between sites could be made. All estimates are transformed relative to the compositional similarity between pairs of sites without a land change (UC − UC). (c, d) Dendrograms show hierarchical clustering of all pairwise similarities based on the average Manhattan distance between pairs of sites; sites with more similar assemblage composition are in branches of closer proximity.
