Cool things happen were science and software meet. This video is truly an example of great things that can be done, helping to understand the world around us in a better way.
Watch this video about the Deep Tree project on youtube here.
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Birds of paradise
This is one of the best way to see, feel, and “measure” biodiversity…enjoy!!!!!!
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Single-trait indices/metrics
Functional diversity can be quantified using one single trait at a time or multiple traits (see the descriptions of multiple-indices in other page). There are single trait metrics that include abundance (e.g. number of individuals per species, relative basal area per especie) to weight the relative contribution of species to the index. Some single-trait metrics are the Community Weighted Mean (CWM), functional divergence (FDvar) and functional regularity index (FRO).
- New page: Single traits indices and metrics
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Software section Biodiversity Tools
A new section with software to analyse biodiversity has been added to this website. For each program or extension a short description and a direct link to download the (open source) software is available. Please leave your comment on the listed programs and suggest others as well as essential packages to be listed.
The first program in the software section is ‘R’. In near future packages will be added to make these more widely available for download and to have discussion on them.