Hello, all: I am interested to get folks' feedback on which species diversity indices are considered more informative and robust to assumptions. Investigations into Web of Science and Google Scholar bring up the Magurran book (2013: *Ecological Diversity and its Measurement*), and many-decades-old reviews on the topic. I dug into this topic pretty comprehensively back in the mid-1990s, but would be keen if anyone were willing to point co-authors and I to any more-recent reviews, or papers on the the topic that you find especially good.
Our end goal is to test whether any one of several aspects of plant-community composition may be i a proximate mediating mechanism by which a habitat-obligate (talus-dwelling), climate-responsive lagomorph (*Ochotona princeps*) that lives in cool, moist areas typically at higher elevations is persisting or not, across a >40-million-ha ecoregion during the 20th and early 21st centuries. We're using an information-theoretic framework to compare evidence in support of a number of competing *a priori *hypotheses about which vegetative characteristics (if any) may be strongly governing that process of persistence. Please respond to me off-list at ebeeve...@gmail.com, or via phone at (406) 994-7670. Thanks in advance for any help ! Erik
