evenness: Evenness index

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evennessR Documentation

Evenness index

Description

Modification of Simpson's evenness index to be restricted between 0 an 1.

Usage

evenness(x)

Arguments

x

Vector of dimension S (number of species) with the number of individuals observed in each species, or the distribution frequencies of species. NA values are allowed.

Value

Evenness index.

References

Arnaud Barat, Andreu Sansó, Maite Arilla-Osuna, Ruth Blasco, Iñaki Pérez-Fernández, Gabriel Cifuentes-Alcobenda, Rubén Llorente, Daniel Vivar-Ríos, Ella Assaf, Ran Barkai, Avi Gopher, & Jordi Rosell-Ardèvol (2026) <doi:10.1007/s10816-026-09802-3>.

See Also

simpson_E

Examples

data(Qesem_s)
evenness(Qesem_s$HU)


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