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benthos (version 1.3-4)

Marine Benthic Ecosystem Analysis

Description

Preprocessing tools and biodiversity measures (species abundance, species richness, population heterogeneity and sensitivity) for analysing marine benthic data. See Van Loon et al. (2015) for an application of these tools.

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install.packages('benthos')

Monthly Downloads

703

Version

1.3-4

License

GPL (>= 3)

Maintainer

Dennis Walvoort

Last Published

November 22nd, 2017

Functions in benthos (1.3-4)

Convert Taxon Names to Comply with WoRMS/TWN

Binomial Names is_binomial tests for valid binomial names, generic_name extracts the genus to which the species belongs, specific_name extracts the species within the genus.

benthos-package

Marine Benthic Ecosystem Analysis

Infaunal Trophic Index (ITI)

Get Infaunal Trophic Index

Oosterschelde Marine Benthos Data

Hurlbert's Expected Number of Species

genus_to_species

Genus to Species Conversion

Test for Azoic Samples

Get Supplementary AMBI Sensitivity Groups

Simpson's Measure of Concentration

species_richness

Species Richness

Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity

total_abundance

Total Abundance

Ecological Quality Ratio (EQR)

Hill's Diversity Numbers

Hurlbert's Probability of Interspecific Encounter (PIE)

AZTI Marine Biotic Index (AMBI)

Read and Validate Taxa Data

Read and Validate Taxa Waterbeheer Nederland (TWN) Data

Read and Validate AMBI Sensitivity Data

Remove Redundant Spaces

Read and Validate BEQI2 Input Files

Convert Taxon Names to Comply with WoRMS

Margalef Index of Diversity

Rygg's Index of Diversity

Shannon's Index or Entropy

Read and Validate Infaunal Trophic Index Files

Read and Validate Habitat References Files

MWTL North Sea Bentos Data