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Assessing the role of the spatial scale in the analysis of lagoon biodiversity . A case-study on the macrobenthic fauna of the Po River Delta
The analysis of benthic assemblages is a valuable tool to describe the ecological status of transitional water ecosystems, but species …
Giovanna Jona Lasinio, Alessio Pollice, Eric Marcon, Elisa Anna Fano
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The Generalized Simpson's Entropy is a Measure of Biodiversity
Modern measures of diversity satisfy reasonable axioms, are parameterized to produce diversity profiles, can be expressed as an …
Michael Grabchak, Eric Marcon, Gabriel Lang, Zhiyi Zhang
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A Typology of Distance-Based Measures of Spatial Concentration
Over the last decade, distance-based methods have been introduced and then improved in the field of spatial economics to gauge the …
Eric Marcon, Florence Puech
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Measuring temporal trends in biodiversity
In 2002, nearly 200 nations signed up to the 2010 target of the Convention for Biological Diversity, ‘to significantly reduce the rate …
Stephen T. Buckland, Y. Yuan, Eric Marcon
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‘Equivalent numbers' for species, phylogenetic or functional diversity in a nested hierarchy of multiple scales
Many recent studies have searched to integrate species’ functions and phylogenies in the measurement of biodiversity. To obtain …
Sandrine Pavoine, Eric Marcon, Carlo Ricotta
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Practical Estimation of Diversity from Abundance Data
Measuring biodiversity requires empirical techniques to effectively estimate it from real data. The well-known underestimation of the …
Eric Marcon
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entropart, an R Package to Measure and Partition Diversity
entropart is a package for R designed to estimate diversity based on HCDT entropy or similarity-based entropy. It allows calculating …
Eric Marcon, Bruno Hérault
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Tools to Characterize Point Patterns: dbmss for R
The dbmss package for R provides an easy-to-use toolbox to characterize the spatial structure of point patterns. Our contribution …
Eric Marcon, Stéphane Traissac, Florence Puech, Gabriel Lang
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Landscape patterns influence communities of medium- to large-bodied vertebrate in undisturbed terra firme forests of French Guiana
Whereas broad-scale Amazonian forest types have been shown to influence the structure of the communities of medium- to large-bodied …
Cécile Richard-Hansen, Gaëlle Jaouen, Thomas Denis, Olivier Brunaux, Eric Marcon, Stéphane Guitet
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Mesures de la concentration spatiale en espace continu : théorie et applications
L’agglomération des activités économiques est indéniable (Krugman, 1991) et chacun peut aisément citer des exemples de quartiers …
Eric Marcon, Florence Puech
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