Supplement 1. R scripts for performing the α, β, γ decomposition.

<h2>File List</h2><div> <p><a href="abgFunctions.R">abgFunctions.R</a> (MD5: cb64e90444f8ecfa9bd42d7e63325440)   Functions necessary to perform the α, β, γ-diversity decomposition </p> <p><a href="example.R">example.R</a> (MD5: 8e4fa85f9edfa1005b42200e2d6a14f1)   Example of analysis with the phylocom dataset (R-package <i>picante</i>)</p> </div><h2>Description</h2><div> <p>The R-scripts are designed to assist the reader to use the methods of the article. The example shows how to use them to calculate the α, β, γ-diversity of a meta-community either through Chao's diversity index or Leinster & Cobbold. We also provide the functions to calculate inter-community pairwise distance matrices. </p> </div

Appendix A. Detailed information about the trait database and the phylogeny.

Detailed information about the trait database and the phylogeny

Appendix B. Results using Leinster and Cobbold's index and comparisons with Chao's diversity index.

Results using Leinster and Cobbold's index and comparisons with Chao's diversity index