Package 'fd' Title Measuring Functional Diversity (fd) from Multiple Traits, and Other Tools for Functional Ecology
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April 16, 2010 Type Package Title Measuring functional diversity (FD) from multiple traits, and other tools for functional ecology Version 1.0-9 Date 2010-04-16 Author Etienne Laliberté, Bill Shipley Maintainer Etienne Laliberté Description FD is a package to compute different multidimensional FD indices. It implements a distance-based framework to measure FD that allows any number and type of functional traits, and can also consider species relative abundances. It also contains other useful tools for functional ecology. License GPL-2 LazyLoad yes LazyData yes Depends ade4, ape, geometry, vegan Encoding latin1 Repository CRAN Date/Publication 2010-04-16 08:13:59
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