Katharina Gerstner, Petr Keil
This is an interactive tool that aims to visualize multiple biodiversity patterns at multiple scales. The tool 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. At the same time the tool plots biodiversity patterns such as species-abundance distributions (SAD), species accummulation curves (SAC), species-area relationships (SAR) and alike.
The package that is used to simulate the community is Felix May's MoBspatial
.
We use Thomas model to simulate point pattern distributions of individual species.
The interactive interface relies on package manipulate
.
GNU GPL