CARLIT-package: Ecological Quality Ratios Calculation and Plot

In CARLIT: Ecological Quality Ratios Calculation and Plot

Description

Functions to calculate and plot ecological quality ratios (EQR) as specified by Ballesteros et al. 2007.

Details

Package:	CARLIT
Type:	Package
Version:	1.0
Date:	2015-03-17
License:	GPL-2

The function carlit() caclulates EQR values for each site of a dataset. If saved in an object, results can then be plotted with the function barplotEQR(object name).

Author(s)

Danilo Pecorino, Gina de la Fuente Mancebo, Xavier Torras

Maintainer: Danilo Pecorino <[e-mail]>

References

Ballesteros E., Torras X., Pinedo S., Garcia M., Mangialajo L., de Torres M. (2007) A new methodology based on littoral community cartography dominated by macroalgae for the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. Marine Pollution Bulletin 55: 171-180.

Examples

data(Community_data)
data(Sensitivity_list)
data(EQR_reference)
Results <- carlit(Community_data, Sensitivity_list, EQR_reference)
Results
barplotEQR(Results)

Example output

   Site        GRS    EQ.ssi    l       EQR
1 Site1 Site1_DB_A  8.250000  240 0.9132231
2 Site1 Site1_HC_A  9.859375  640 0.9132231
3 Site2 Site2_HC_A 10.935294 1700 0.9951928
4 Site2 Site2_LC_A 11.677966  590 0.9951928
5 Site3 Site3_LC_N  7.594340 1060 0.5254718
6 Site3 Site3_HC_N 10.545455  440 0.5254718

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