mobsim: An r package for the simulation and measurement of biodiversity across spatial scales

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1401-1408

  May, Felix ^a,b   Gerstner, Katharina ^a   McGlinn, Daniel J ^c   Xiao, Xiao ^d   Chase, Jonathan M ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

diversity indices; rarefaction curve; sampling; scale dependence; simulation; species abundance distribution; species accumulation curve; species area relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 85043602025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12986     Document Type: Article

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