Diversity index

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Question

How to calculate diversity indices?

Answer

Upload your data to Opasnet Base. Use the function diversity to calculate the most common indices.

Actual function diversity

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The function diversity produces a list where the first, second, and third element are the gamma, the alpha, and transect-specific gamma diversities, respectively.

Function diversity.table produces a data.frame of several diversity indices.

Examples

Example 1 to use function

Give your data in R format or leave empty for example data:

Is your data individual data or group abundancies?:

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Example 2

Select your data:

Which q values you want to calculate.:
0
0.5
1
2
3
6

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The data should be given in R format as a list of values in parenthesis, beginning with c:

c(3,5,3,5,2,1,3,3,4,2) or equivalently c(0.1,0.2,0.4,0.1,0.2)

where the values are either

  • identifiers of the species 1,2,3... in which the individuals belong (one entry per individual), or
  • abundancies of species, i.e. proportions of individuals belonging to each species among the whole population (one entry per species).

Rationale

Diversity indices are thoroughly described in Wikipedia.

See also

References


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