Palaeoecological and Palaeogeographical Analysis Tools
Abundance- and Incidence-based Coverage Estimators
Nestedness of samples using AIC
Bootstrap Species Richness Estimator
Similarity/Dissimilarity Indices
Chao's estimation of standard error
Chao's Jaccard and Sorenson Estimators of Shared Species
Chao's Species Estimators
Cohesiveness Index for Relational Clustering
Creating a table of Latitudes and Longitudes
Creating species locality matrices
Haversine Distance Formula
Creating a Distance Matrix
Calculate a Minimum Spanning Tree or Network
Bearings Between Geographic Locations
Calculating Geographic Distances
Calculating a Minimum Convex Polygon
Calculating the Surface Area Enclosed by Three Geographic Points
Calculate the Euler Rotation of a Point
A Sample Species Abundance Dataset
fossil: Palaeoecological and Palaeogeographical Analysis Tools
Internal function for chao estimators
First- and second-order jacknife estimators
Converting a Table of Latitudes and Longitudes to a Shapefile
Mapping Points on a Global Map
Function to Find Local Optimization for clustering
Mapping a Minimum Spanning Tree
Convert a Minimum spanning Network or Tree to Shapefile
Display a Minimum Spanning Tree or Network
Find a New Latitude and Longitude
Creating NMDS plots with overlain Minimum Spanning Trees
Rand Index and Adjusted Rand Index
Relational Clustering
Relational Clustering
Relational Clustering
Relational Clustering
Relational Clustering
Calculate Species Area Curves
Simulated Species Occurrence data
Estimating Species Diversity
Testing for the Triangle Inequality
A set of analytical tools useful in analysing ecological and geographical data sets, both ancient and modern. The package includes functions for estimating species richness (Chao 1 and 2, ACE, ICE, Jacknife), shared species/beta diversity, species area curves and geographic distances and areas.