FDiversity: a software package for the integrated analysis of functional diversity

CASANOVES, F.; PLÁ, L.; DI RIENZO, J.; DÍAZ S. M.

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

British Ecological Society

Año: 2010

2041-210X

Summary1. The growing interest in functional diversity has been accompanied by a proliferation of indicesproposed to calculate its different components; however, empirical studies have been hampered bya lack of integrated tools for their easy calculation based on field data sets.2. We present FDiversity, a free, user-friendly, open source-based software package for the calculationand integrated statistical analysis of most functional diversity indices and metrics published todate.3. This tool greatly facilitates the analysis of functional diversity patterns and also the links of differentdimensions of functional diversity with environmental factors and ecosystem properties andservices.