<p>Horse flies captured using various sampling methods at different sites
  across Brazil.</p>

Fits unimodal and multimodal gambin distributions to species-abundance distributions
from ecological data, as in in Matthews et al. (2014) <DOI:10.1111/ecog.00861>.
'gambin' is short for 'gamma-binomial'. The main function is fit_abundances(), which estimates
the 'alpha' parameter(s) of the gambin distribution using maximum likelihood. Functions are
also provided to generate the gambin distribution and for calculating likelihood statistics.

Thomas Matthews

gambin

Fit the Gambin Model to Species Abundance Distributions

Karl Ugland

Colin Gillespie

fly function

<p>A list with two elements. The first element contains a numerical
  vector with the abundance of 164 fly species sampled at various sites
  across Brazil. The second element contains a numerical vector with the
  abundance of 58 fly specie sampled at a single site within Brazil using
  just canopy traps.</p>

fly: Brazilian Horse Fly Data

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