Software

Select 1.4
Laughlin, D.C., and L. Chalmandrier. 2018. Select: Determines Species Probabilities Based on Functional Traits. R package version 1.4. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Select.

  • Restoration ecologists aim to re-establish diverse, functioning communities. This R package produces a species assemblage (i.e., a species relative abundance distribution) based on a user-defined functional trait profile. The species abundances can converge on specific community-weighted mean trait values and this function can simultaneously maximize functional diversity.

 

Traitspace R functions

See my CommunityEcology repository for Traitspace functions.
https://github.com/danielLaughlin/CommunityEcology
These functions are described in Laughlin et al. (2012; Ecol Lett), Keddy and Laughlin (2022), and Chalmandrier et al. (2022; Ecol Lett).

 

Traitspace 1.1 (Deprecated!)
Joshi, C., X. Li, D.C. Laughlin. 2015. Traitspace: A predictive model for trait based community assembly of plant species. R package version 1.1.

  • This R package predicts relative abundances of species based on the relationship between traits and environments and variation in functional traits within and among species. It can be used to test the importance of traits during environmental filtering.