Open cramjaco opened 2 years ago
Hi @cramjaco -- just an overdue update to let you know that the very capable Sarah @svteichman is working on this.
You're absolutely right that it is possible to estimate Shannon Evenness with DivNet, but there are some technical/methodological challenges, and we had don't yet have user-ready software for this yet.
You can expect an update in the next month or so.
Thanks for your patience and I'm sorry didn't get back to you earlier.
Hey Willis Lab. I have less of an issue and more of a question. I'm happy to ask via some other forum if this isn't the place. I notice that in Dr. Willis's stamps 2018 lecture on diversity, she advocated, where possible, using Richness and Shannon Evenness (ShannonH/Richness) to describe diversity. I'm wondering what the best way is to handle Shannon Evenness in DivNet. I know that I can divide the Shanonn index estimate by the richness score estemate to get an evenness estimate, but then I wonder (A) how do I then combine the uncertainties in each measurement and (B), how can I create Shannon-Evenness data in a form that I can use the other useful tools that your team has produced like
betta()
on the evenness data. Maybe this has been described somewhere and I'm missing it, so if I just missed a key paper or help file, please let me know. Thanks so much for your consideration.