pielou: Pielou's Evenness

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

Pielou's Evenness

Usage

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pielou(taxa.wide)

Arguments

taxa.wide

Taxonomic counts aggregated at the specific taxonomic classification (e.g., Order, Family, or Genus) in a wide data format. Use the wide function to prepare the data.

Value

Pielou's Evenness Index: H'/ ln(S) where: H' = Shannon Weiner Diversity S = taxa richness

If species richness is <= 1, this function will return 0. Shannon Wiener diversity is calculated using the vegan package function diversity with the index set to "shannon". Taxa richness is calculated using the vegan package function specnumber.


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