Relating Plant Biodiversity in Forests with the Spatial Scale of Ecosystem Processes

Figure 2

Root mean squared error in percentage (RMSE%) of Rényi diversities 𝐻 plotted versus sample area 𝐴 for the species diversity model of ecosystem type Melico Fagetum (Figure 1) according to (9) using the parameters listed in Table 3. The full line corresponds to moments of order 𝑞=0 (species number), the dashed line to 𝑞=1 (Shannon diversity), and the dotted line to 𝑞=2 (Simpson diversity).