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Decomposing Phylodiversity
Measuring functional or phylogenetic diversity is the object of an active literature. The main issues to address are relating measures …
Eric Marcon, Bruno Hérault
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Generalization of the Partitioning of Shannon Diversity
Traditional measures of diversity, namely the number of species as well as Simpson’s and Shannon’s indices, are particular …
Eric Marcon, Ivan Scotti, Bruno Hérault, Vivien Rossi, Gabriel Lang
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The Decomposition of Similarity-Based Diversity and its Bias Correction
Similarity-based diversity (Leinster and Cobbold 2012) encompasses classical measures of diversity, including the number of species, …
Eric Marcon, Zhiyi Zhang, Bruno Hérault
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Testing randomness of spatial point patterns with the Ripley statistic
Aggregation patterns are often visually detected in sets of location data. These clusters may be the result of interesting dynamics or …
Gabriel Lang, Eric Marcon
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A Statistical Test for Ripley's Function Rejection of Poisson Null Hypothesis
Ripley’s K function is the classical tool to characterize the spatial structure of point patterns. It is widely used in …
Eric Marcon, Stéphane Traissac, Gabriel Lang
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Characterizing the Relative Spatial Structure of Point Patterns
We generalize Ripley’s K function to get a new function, M, to characterize the spatial structure of a point pattern relatively …
Eric Marcon, Florence Puech, Stéphane Traissac
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The Decomposition of Shannon's Entropy and a Confidence Interval for Beta Diversity
Beta diversity is among the most employed theoretical concepts in ecology and biodiversity conservation. Up to date, a self-contained …
Eric Marcon, Bruno Hérault, Christopher Baraloto, Gabriel Lang
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Assessing foliar chlorophyll contents with the SPAD-502 chlorophyll meter: a calibration test with thirteen tree species of tropical rainforest in French Guiana
Chlorophyll meters such as the SPAD-502 offer a simple, inexpensive and rapid method to estimate foliar chlorophyll content. However, …
Sabrina Coste, Christopher Baraloto, Céline Leroy, Eric Marcon, Amélie Renaud, Andrew D. Richardson, Jean-Christophe Roggy, Heidy Schimann, Johan Uddling, Bruno Hérault
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Integrating functional diversity into tropical forest plantation designs to study ecosystem processes
  • The elucidation of relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem processes has been limited by the definition of metrics of …
Christopher Baraloto, Eric Marcon, François Morneau, Sandrine Pavoine, Jean-Christophe Roggy
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Measures of the Geographic Concentration of Industries: Improving Distance-Based Methods
We discuss a property of distance-based measures that has not been addressed with regard to evaluating the geographic concentration of …
Eric Marcon, Florence Puech
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