[PDF] Commentary: Do we have a consistent terminology for species diversity? The fallacy of true diversity | Semantic Scholar

Frequency-based genotypic and gene diversity parameters, methods of ‘true diversity’ and functional diversity, as well as two types of dissimilarity based approaches (by means of averaging pairwise dissimilarities, and solution of the assignment problem) are comprehensively discussed.

The standard similarity measure based on untransformed indices is shown to give misleading results, but transforming the indices or entropies to effective numbers of species produces a stable, easily interpreted, sensitive general similarity measure.