3.5 Contributions of Alpha and Beta Diversity to Gamma Diversity
For the pre-fire sample, γ was 37, α 6.7, and Whittaker’s β 5.5. In the post-fire sample, γ was 49, α 5.4, and Whittaker’s β 9.1. In other words, α contributed more than β to landscape scale γ in the first sample, which reversed for the second sample.