Additivity rule testing

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Method synopsis

Numerical experiments to test whether sum of SARs for taxonomic subgroups equals the SAR for the entire assemblage under METE predictions.

Synthesized from method descriptions across 1 paper using this protocol.

Procedure as described in the canonical source

Steps below were extracted from the paper that introduces this protocol — Taxon Categories and the Universal Species-Area Relationship (2013), The American Naturalist,. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.

1. Test taxonomic subdivisions
   Create numerical examples with hypothetical assemblages divided into taxonomically distinct subgroups (e.g., birds vs insects, or plants divided by abundance categories). Apply METE to predict SAR for each subgroup separately and for the combined assemblage.
   Quantities: Three test cases with assemblages of 10-200 species and 40-800 individuals at initial scale A=1, upscaled to A'=256Duration: Not specified - computational examplesConditions: Numerical simulation
   Equipment: computational analysis

Typical Equipment

• computational analysis

Output Measurements

• upscaled species richness
• SAR slope comparisons

Papers Using This Protocol (1)