README.md

In fsfrazao/SharedS: Assessing the influence of occasional species on shared-species metrics

SharedS

R package with functions to assist community ecologists to assess the influence of occasional species on (dis)similarity metrics.

SharedS was written in 2011, when I was an undergrad research assistant at the Insect Ecology Lab (Federal University of Lavras, Brazil) under the supervision of Dr. Julio Louzada and Dr. Jos Barlow. It aimed to automate and expand on the procedures used in Barlow et al (2010)-Measuring the conservation value of tropical primary forests: the effect of occasional species on estimates of biodiversity uniqueness.

The code is released under GPL-3 licence, which means it is free to use, modify and redistribute, but any derived code needs to be under the same licence (or a later version). You can find a copy of the license in this repository or check the official website: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

Installation

You can install SharedS directly from this repository with devtools.

#Install devtools if you don't already have it
install.packages("devtools")
#Load it
library(devtools)

#Use the install_github function to install from this repository
devtools::install_github("fsfrazao/SharedS")

#Load SharedS
library(SharedS)

Acknowledgments:

This project was developed under the guidance of Dr. Julio Louzada and Dr. Jos Barlow. Dr. Victor Hugo Oliveira and Dr. André Tavares provided valuable feedback when using the code.

References:

• Barlow, J., Gardner, T. A., Louzada, J., & Peres, C. A. (2010). Measuring the conservation value of tropical primary forests: the effect of occasional species on estimates of biodiversity uniqueness. PloS one, 5(3), e9609. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009609

fsfrazao/SharedS documentation built on July 1, 2019, 6:24 p.m.