Community Intrinsic Diversity Ordering and Its Application

The paper introduced a new method for comparing the biodiversity among communities: community intrinsic diversity ordering. Communities can be compared using right tail sum or Δβ profiles that can avoid shortcomings of inconsistent ordering among different diversity indices. As an index free method, it shows that the biodiversity is partial, and communities are not always intrinsically comparable in the biodiversity. One community with intrinsically high diversity has real high diversity. Tree size diversity of thinning and control plots was studied by the method. Community intrinsic diversity ordering is a useful method for comparing community diversity in space and time, and forest management planning.