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

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<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p> <jats:bold>1.</jats:bold> The growing interest in functional diversity has been accompanied by a proliferation of indices proposed to calculate its different components; however, empirical studies have been hampered by a lack of integrated tools for their easy calculation based on field data sets.</jats:p><jats:p> <jats:bold>2.</jats:bold> We present FDiversity, a free, user‐friendly, open source‐based software package for the calculation and integrated statistical analysis of most functional diversity indices and metrics published to date.</jats:p><jats:p> <jats:bold>3.</jats:bold> This tool greatly facilitates the analysis of functional diversity patterns and also the links of different dimensions of functional diversity with environmental factors and ecosystem properties and services.</jats:p>

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