codyn: An r package of community dynamics metrics

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1146-1151

  Hallett, Lauren M ^a,b   Jones, Sydney K ^c   MacDonald, A Andrew M ^d   Jones, Matthew B ^e   Flynn, Dan F B ^f   Ripplinger, Julie ^g   Slaughter, Peter ^e   Gries, Corinna ^h   Collins, Scott L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity analysis; cyclic shift; long term data; mean rank shift; r package; rank clock; synchrony; temporal analysis; turnover; variance ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971342667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12569     Document Type: Article

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