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benthos (version 2.0-0)

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')

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Version

2.0-0

License

GPL (>= 3)

Maintainer

Dennis Walvoort

Last Published

February 11th, 2026

Functions in benthos (2.0-0)

pool

Pooling
strip_spaces

Remove Redundant Spaces
read_iti

Read and Validate Infaunal Trophic Index Files
read_beqi2

Read and Validate BEQI2 Input Files
read_ref

Read and Validate Habitat References Files
to_worms

Convert Taxon Names to Comply with WoRMS
read_ambi

Read and Validate AMBI Sensitivity Data
rygg

Rygg's Index of Diversity
shannon

Shannon's Index or Entropy
total_abundance

Total Abundance
read_twn

Read and Validate Taxa Waterbeheer Nederland (TWN) Data
read_taxa

Read and Validate Taxa Data
simpson

Simpson's Measure of Concentration
species_richness

Species Richness
genus_to_species

Genus to Species Conversion
bray_curtis

Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity
abundance

Abundance
get_ambi

Get Supplementary AMBI Sensitivity Groups
eqr

Ecological Quality Ratio (EQR)
benthos-package

Marine Benthic Ecosystem Analysis
as_accepted

Convert Taxon Names to Comply with WoRMS/TWN
get_iti

Get Infaunal Trophic Index
ambi

AZTI Marine Biotic Index (AMBI)
harmonize

Harmonize Case
oosterschelde

Oosterschelde Marine Benthos Data
hurlbert

Hurlbert's Expected Number of Species
is_azoic

Test for Azoic Samples
margalef

Margalef Index of Diversity
northsea

MWTL North Sea Bentos Data
hill

Hill's Diversity Numbers
is_binomen

Binomial Names
iti

Infaunal Trophic Index (ITI)
hpie

Hurlbert's Probability of Interspecific Encounter (PIE)