Open AccessFDiversity: an Integrated Tool to Estimate and Analyze Functional Diversity
Author(s) -
Casanoves Fernando,
Pla Laura E.,
Di Rienzo Julio A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the bulletin of the ecological society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2327-6096
pISSN - 0012-9623
DOI - 10.1890/0012-9623-92.2.147
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , functional diversity , biodiversity , abiotic component , computer science , data mining , software , data science , ecology , biology , sociology , anthropology , programming language
Consensus exists about the role of functional diversity, but studies with empirical data sets are scarce. The handling of large data sets has been limited because of the lack of tools to analyze functional diversity and their components in an easy and friendly way. We have developed user‐friendly menu‐driven software to estimate and analyze functional diversity indices to facilitate good statistical practice by ecologists. Estimation of taxonomic biodiversity and functional diversity indices within the same analytic environment allows study of the relationship among estimated indices as well as their dependencies with other biotic and/or abiotic factors.