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A Novel Approach to Visualize a Complete Spectrum of Alpha Diversity: Richness, Evenness and Abundance

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Several methods for the calculation of alpha diversity have been developed in the literature, including Shannon, Simpson, among others; however, each method differs in the characteristics it describes and in the units of its results. This paper presents a method for the visualization of richness, equality and abundance that, starting from a set of data, allows the representation of this method in an intuitive way to make deductions.

The proposed method is based on a continuous calculation of Hill numbers. The bases and similarities with existing methods are mentioned. The formulation of the method, and a description of its coding as well as the results obtained with public data sets divided by groups are presented.

The results obtained by the proposed method better represent the different characteristics of alpha diversity. Finally, the characteristics used in this method are analyzed, and their implications for future research are discussed in detail.

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Acknowledgements and Funding

Article product of a doctoral research financed with resources from the National Fund for Financing Science, Technology and Innovation, through the call 809 of 2018 of Science ministry. Also supported by the Fundación Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla - Colombia.

NA is a doctoral student at Universidad del Norte, Colombia, whose PhD is funded by COLCIENCIAS and Gobernación del Atlántico (Colombia), grant No. 809 (2018), “Formación de Capital Humano de Alto Nivel para el Departamento del Atlántico“. HSJV and EZ are supported in part by award No. R01AI110385 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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  1. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia

    Nazhir Amaya-Tejera, Homero San-Juan-Vergara & Eduardo Zurek

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  1. ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Gintautas Dzemyda

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    Fernando Moreira

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Amaya-Tejera, N., San-Juan-Vergara, H., Zurek, E. (2022). A Novel Approach to Visualize a Complete Spectrum of Alpha Diversity: Richness, Evenness and Abundance. In: Rocha, A., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 468. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04826-5_42

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