Ecometric Models of Trait–Environment Relationships at the Community Level
Internal utilities and global variables
Run an ecometric model for qualitative environmental variables
Run an ecometric model for quantitative environmental variables
Plot ecometric space for qualitative environmental variables
Plot ecometric space for quantitative environmental variables
Inspect overlapping species at sampling points
Determine optimal number of bins using Scott's Rule
Reconstruct past qualitative environmental categories using ecometric ...
Reconstruct past environmental conditions using ecometric models
Perform sensitivity analysis on ecometric models (qualitative environm...
Perform sensitivity analysis on ecometric models (quantitative environ...
Summarize trait distributions at sampling points with optional contine...
Provides a framework for modeling relationships between functional traits and both quantitative and qualitative environmental variables at the community level. It includes tools for trait binning, likelihood-based environmental estimation, model evaluation, fossil projection into modern ecometric space, and result visualization. For more details see Vermillion et al. (2018) <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94265-0_17>, Polly et al. (2011) <doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2233> and Polly and Head (2015) <doi:10.1017/S1089332600002953>.
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