rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back

Rocchini, Duccio; Thouverai, Elisa; Marcantonio, Matteo; Iannacito, Martina; Da Re, Daniele; Torresani, Michele; Bacaro, Giovanni; Bazzichetto, Manuele; Bernardi, Alessandra; Foody, Giles M.; Furrer, Reinhard; Kleijn, David; Larsen, Stefano; Lenoir, Jonathan; Malavasi, Marco; Marchetto, Elisa; Messori, Filippo; Montaghi, Alessandro; Moudr�, V�t?zslav; Naimi, Babak; Ricotta, Carlo; Rossini, Micol; Santi, Francesco; Santos, Maria J.; Schaepman, Michael E.; Schneider, Fabian D.; Schuh, Leila; Silvestri, Sonia; ?�mov�, Petra; Skidmore, Andrew K.; Tattoni, Clara; Tordoni, Enrico; Vicario, Saverio; Zannini, Piero; Wegmann, Martin

Abstract

Ecosystem heterogeneity has been widely recognized as a key ecological indicator of several ecological functions, diversity patterns and change, metapopulation dynamics, population connectivity or gene flow. In this paper, we present a new R package—rasterdiv—to calculate heterogeneity indices based on remotely sensed data. We also provide an ecological application at the landscape scale and demonstrate its power in revealing potentially hidden heterogeneity patterns. The rasterdiv package allows calculating multiple indices, robustly rooted in Information Theory, and based on reproducible open-source algorithms.

Citation

Rocchini, D., Thouverai, E., Marcantonio, M., Iannacito, M., Da Re, D., Torresani, M., Bacaro, G., Bazzichetto, M., Bernardi, A., Foody, G. M., Furrer, R., Kleijn, D., Larsen, S., Lenoir, J., Malavasi, M., Marchetto, E., Messori, F., Montaghi, A., Moudrý, V., Naimi, B., …Wegmann, M. (2021). rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(6), 1093-1102. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13583

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 8, 2021
• Online Publication Date: May 3, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021-06
• Deposit Date: May 9, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: May 24, 2021
• Journal: Methods in Ecology and Evolution
• Electronic ISSN: 2041-210X
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1093-1102
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13583
• Keywords: Ecological Modelling; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5521610
• Publisher URL: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13583