Line Transect-Based Nearest Neighbor Distance Analysis

Conducting Line transect-based one-dimensional nearest neighbor distance and conducting hypothesis testing related to local distributional aggregation pattern of species. The reason that such a package is needed is because traditional two-dimensional nearest neighbor distance is not applicable when biodiversity data are sampled via optimal ecological survey methods, like line transects. In comparison to the entire studied region, line transect-collected local biodiversity data are spatially constrained and sampling-limited. To this end, two-dimensional nearest neighbor distance would tend to over-estimate distributional aggregation pattern of species when using this limited biodiversity information. Accordingly, one-dimensional nearest neighbor distance is needed and the associated statistical testing should be established for analyzing line transect-derived biodiversity data.


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install.packages("Linda")

1.3 by Youhua Chen, 3 months ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/Linda


Authors: Youhua Chen [aut, cre] , Tsung-Jen Shen [aut] , Xiaoqin Shi [ctb]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL-3 license


Imports doParallel, foreach, iterators, parallel, stats


See at CRAN