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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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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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