BioFTF: Biodiversity Assessment Using Hill-Number Functional Tools

Tools for biodiversity assessment through Hill-number diversity profiles treated as functions of the order q. The package computes the profiles of Hill (1973) <doi:10.2307/1934352>, their analytical first and second derivatives, curvature, radius of curvature, arc length, cumulative integral functions, profile areas, area-based rankings and relative changes over time, together with static and interactive three-dimensional biodiversity surfaces. The functional approach follows Di Battista, Fortuna and Maturo (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.10.032>, Maturo and Di Battista (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.08.016> and Maturo (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.03.013>.

Version:	3.0.0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.6.0)
Imports:	graphics, grDevices
Suggests:	plotly, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-10-18
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.BioFTF
Author:	Fabrizio Maturo [aut, cre], Francesca Fortuna [aut], Tonio Di Battista [aut]
Maintainer:	Fabrizio Maturo <fabrizio.maturo at unimercatorum.it>
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
NeedsCompilation:	no
Citation:	BioFTF citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	BioFTF results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	BioFTF.html , BioFTF.pdf
Vignettes:	Hill-number functional tools with BioFTF (source, R code)

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Package source:	BioFTF_3.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available
Old sources:	BioFTF archive

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