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Diversity measurement

Compute neutral, phylogenetic or functional Hill numbers and their derived diagnostics.

hilldiv()
Hill numbers computation
hillprof()
Diversity profile across a range of orders
plot(<hill_profile>)
Plot a diversity profile
hilleven()
Hill-number evenness

Partitioning and (dis)similarity

Decompose diversity across samples and turn beta into bounded (dis)similarity metrics.

hillpart()
Hill numbers diversity partitioning
hilldiss()
Hill numbers-based dissimilarity
hillsim()
Hill numbers-based similarity
hillpair()
Pairwise Hill numbers-based dissimilarity

Redundancy

How much phylogenetic/functional structure is duplicated across taxa.

hillred()
Hill numbers redundancy
plot(<hill_redundancy>)
Plot a redundancy fit

Data preparation

Normalise, build functional distances, and align inputs.

tss()
Total Sum Scaling normalisation
traits2dist()
Convert a trait table into a distance matrix
match_data()
Match and align a count table to a tree or distance matrix

Datasets

Bundled simulated gut-microbiome example data.

gut_counts
Simulated gut microbiome MAG count table
gut_tree
Phylogeny for the simulated gut MAGs
gut_traits
Functional traits for the simulated gut MAGs

Package

hilldiv3 hilldiv3-package
hilldiv3: Integral Analysis of Diversity Based on Hill Numbers