Katharina Gerstner, Petr Keil
This is an interactive tool that aims to visualize multiple
biodiversity patterns at multiple spatial scales. The tool
(1) simulates locations of individuals of
different species in a location (plot, area); the key parameters of the simulation
are total number of individuals, total number of species, eveness of the
abundances and aggregation of species.
(2) plots biodiversity patterns such as species-abundance distributions (SAD), species
accummulation curves (SAC), species-area relationships (SAR) and alike for a selected grid cell and for the entire region.
The package that is used to simulate the community is Felix May's mobsim
.
We use Thomas model to simulate point pattern distributions of individual species.
The interactive interface relies on package manipulate
.
GNU GPL