Mapping Functional Diversity

Functions to map multivariate functional richness, divergence and evenness based on Schneider, et al. (2017).

Example to calculate multi-dimensional functional diversity indices using blockwise and moving window processing:

Richness based on the convex hull volume,

Divergence based on the mean distance to the center of gravity, and

Evenness based on the minimum spanning tree.

Please cite: Schneider, F. D., Morsdorf, F., Schmid, B., Petchey, O. L., Hueni, A., Schimel, D. S., & Schaepman, M. E. (2017). Mapping functional diversity from remotely sensed morphological and physiological forest traits. Nature Communications, 8(1), 1441. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01530-3