Research Article

IBP′: A New Index to Estimate Biogeographical Peculiarity

Table 1

Rank ord.: rank order of the categories; chor.cat.: chorological categories; rel.ab.: relative abundance of each category; GMBP: step by step cumulative sum (left) for getting the numbers (right) used to draw the Graphical Model of Biogeographical Peculiarity (Figure 1); IBP′: sum (first six cells) and computation (bottom separate cells) of the Index of Biogeographical Peculiarity (in bold).

Rank ord.Chor.cat.Rel.ab.GMBP IBP′

6I.1 .1 .1 +
5II.05.1 + .05 = .15 .15 +
4IIIm.15.1 + .05 + .15 = .3 .3 +
3III.35.1 + .05 + .15 + .35 = .65 .65 +
2IV.2 .1 + .05 + .15 + .35 + .2 = .85 .85 +
1V.15.1 + .05 + .15 + .35 + .2 + .15 = 11.0 =

3.05

(.41 + 6)/(1 + 6) = .92