Characterising and Locating Ecotones and Communities
Description
Analytical methods to locate and characterise ecotones, ecosystems and environmental patchiness along ecological gradients. Methods are implemented for isolated sampling or for space/time series. It includes Detrended Correspondence Analysis (Hill & Gauch (1980) ), fuzzy clustering (De Cceres et al. (2010) ), biodiversity indices (Jost (2006) ), and network analyses (Epskamp et al. (2012) ) - as well as tools to explore the number of clusters in the data. Functions to produce synthetic ecological datasets are also provided.