A software for Estimating Biodiversity Components (BİÇEB)

Abstract

Biodiversity is of crucial importance for ecosystem health and functioning. It is thus one of the most important topics in the various disiplines of the Naturel Science. Various indices have been improved to measure biodiversity. By using those indices, biodiversity can be estimated at alpha (within a given site), beta (between the sites) and gamma (total) levels. Thanks to presence of many indices for calculating of biodiversity components, the researchers can use these calculation techniques with their alternatives and evaluate the research results more effectively and efficiently. This situation provides an important adventage to arrive more productive and accurate results about biodiversity studies. The information obtained from such studies are particulary important for the identification of the policies and implementations for conservation and sustainability of the biodiversity in the natural ecosystems. In this sense, by thinking as an important demand for the reseachers in Turkey, it was thought that making a sofware called by our study team as “A Software for Measuring Bodiversity Components (BİÇEB)” can be useful. This software includes species richness measures, heterogeneousness measurments and species abundance models at alpha level, and computations between two communities, and among the communities by using binary and abundance data at beta and gamma level. The software is designed in two forms as web and desktop application. In this way, it is aimed to be an easily accessible and user friendly software. In this study, it is aimed to give information about BİÇEB software.

Keywords

• dissimilarity
• shannon
• simpson
• margalef
• sorensen
• whittaker
• benzemezlik
• shannon
• simpson
• margalef
• sorensen
• whittaker