BioDinamica: a toolkit for analyses of biodiversity and biogeography on the Dinamica-EGO modelling platform

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Ubirajara Oliveira¹  Britaldo Soares-Filho¹  Rômulo Fernandes Machado Leitão¹  Hermann O. Rodrigues¹ 

[1] Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais—UFMG

关键词: Spatial patterns;    GIS;    Modelling;    Species distribution models;    Beta-diversity;    Phylogenetic spatial analyses;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.7213

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Biogeography and macroecology are at the heart of the debate on ecology and evolution. We have developed the BioDinamica package, a suite of user-friendly graphical programs for analysing spatial patterns of biogeography and macroecology. BioDinamica includes analyses of beta-diversity, species richness, endemicity, phylo-diversity, species distribution models, predictive models of biodiversity patterns, and several tools for spatial biodiversity analysis. BioDinamica consists of a sub-library of Dinamica-EGO operators developed by integrating EGO native functions with R scripts. The BioDinamica operators can be assembled to create complex analytical and simulation models through the EGO graphical programming interface. In addition, we make available “Wizard” tutorials for end users. BioDinamica can be downloaded free of charge from the Dinamica EGO submodel store. The tools made available in BioDinamica not only facilitate complex biodiversity analyses, they also help develop state-of-the-art spatial models for biogeography and macroecology studies.

【 授权许可】

CC BY