fossil0.4.0 package

Palaeoecological and Palaeogeographical Analysis Tools

ace

Abundance- and Incidence-based Coverage Estimators

aic.nest

Nestedness of samples using AIC

bootstrap

Bootstrap Species Richness Estimator

bray.curtis

Similarity/Dissimilarity Indices

chao.sd.rd

Chao's estimation of standard error

chao.sorenson

Chao's Jaccard and Sorenson Estimators of Shared Species

chao1

Chao's Species Estimators

coi

Cohesiveness Index for Relational Clustering

create.lats

Creating a table of Latitudes and Longitudes

create.matrix

Creating species locality matrices

deg.dist

Haversine Distance Formula

dino.dist

Creating a Distance Matrix

dino.mst

Calculate a Minimum Spanning Tree or Network

earth.bear

Bearings Between Geographic Locations

earth.dist

Calculating Geographic Distances

earth.poly

Calculating a Minimum Convex Polygon

earth.tri

Calculating the Surface Area Enclosed by Three Geographic Points

euler.rot

Calculate the Euler Rotation of a Point

fdata

A Sample Species Abundance Dataset

fossil-package

fossil: Palaeoecological and Palaeogeographical Analysis Tools

int.chao

Internal function for chao estimators

jack1

First- and second-order jacknife estimators

lats2Shape

Converting a Table of Latitudes and Longitudes to a Shapefile

loc.map

Mapping Points on a Global Map

localoptima

Function to Find Local Optimization for clustering

msn.map

Mapping a Minimum Spanning Tree

msn2Shape

Convert a Minimum spanning Network or Tree to Shapefile

mstlines

Display a Minimum Spanning Tree or Network

new.lat.long

Find a New Latitude and Longitude

nmds.mst

Creating NMDS plots with overlain Minimum Spanning Trees

rand.index

Rand Index and Adjusted Rand Index

rclust.dist

Relational Clustering

rclust.null

Relational Clustering

rclust

Relational Clustering

rclust.weights

Relational Clustering

relational.clustering

Relational Clustering

sac

Calculate Species Area Curves

sim.occ

Simulated Species Occurrence data

spp.est

Estimating Species Diversity

tri.ineq

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.