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benthos (version 1.3-6)

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

365

Version

1.3-6

License

GPL (>= 3)

Maintainer

Dennis Walvoort

Last Published

March 17th, 2019

Functions in benthos (1.3-6)

Hill's Diversity Numbers

Hurlbert's Expected Number of Species

Test for Azoic Samples

Simpson's Measure of Concentration

species_richness

Species Richness

Read and Validate AMBI Sensitivity Data

Remove Redundant Spaces

Read and Validate BEQI2 Input Files

Hurlbert's Probability of Interspecific Encounter (PIE)

Convert Taxon Names to Comply with WoRMS

Margalef Index of Diversity

Get Supplementary AMBI Sensitivity Groups

Oosterschelde Marine Benthos Data

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.

MWTL North Sea Bentos Data

Rygg's Index of Diversity

Infaunal Trophic Index (ITI)

Read and Validate Infaunal Trophic Index Files

Read and Validate Taxa Data

Shannon's Index or Entropy

Read and Validate Taxa Waterbeheer Nederland (TWN) Data

Read and Validate Habitat References Files

total_abundance

Total Abundance

genus_to_species

Genus to Species Conversion

AZTI Marine Biotic Index (AMBI)

Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity

Ecological Quality Ratio (EQR)

Convert Taxon Names to Comply with WoRMS/TWN

Get Infaunal Trophic Index

benthos-package

Marine Benthic Ecosystem Analysis