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- Title
rich: An R Package to Analyse Species Richness.
- Authors
Rossi, Jean-Pierre
- Abstract
The paper describes rich, a new R package to perform species richness estimation and comparison. Species richness is the simplest surrogate for the more complex concept of species biodiversity. It is relatively easy to assess although estimations strongly depend on sampling intensity with the consequence that richness estimations should be standardized to perform valid comparisons. The R package rich allows such corrections as well as the computation of various statistics and implements different randomization tests to compare cumulative and average species richness of two communities. These tests are useful for ranking sites or communities which is a classical goal in restoration ecology and conservation biology.
- Subjects
SPECIES diversity; STATISTICAL bootstrapping; STANDARDIZATION; CONSERVATION biology; BIODIVERSITY conservation; ENVIRONMENTAL sciences; SPECIES distribution; BIOTIC communities; STATISTICAL sampling
- Publication
Diversity (14242818), 2011, Vol 3, Issue 1, p112
- ISSN
1424-2818
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/d3010112