Luis Cayuela
Departamento de Biología y Geología
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
c/ Tulipán s/n
E-28933
Móstoles
Madrid, Spain
E-mail: [email protected]

Nicholas J. Gotelli
Department of Biology
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405 USA

Robert K. Colwell
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269 USA
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Boulder, CO 80309 USA

RareNMtests.zip (MD5: 4fd3828969780f87ee17ac2c5ce60640)

Example_of_negative_binomial_sampling_error.pdf (MD5: 25738f0fe874ae2ea3ce38a7e931d7d5)

Benchmark_tests.R (MD5: 77b9f48830fbbc922c70ad9a782dd740)

Chiapas_dataset.csv (MD5: 1183bdcf5ae0a155731729fbc2648d0b)

rareNMtests.zip-R package, with functions to implement ecological and biogeographical null model tests for comparing rarefaction curves.

Example_of_negative_binomial_sampling_error.pdf – R code to exemplify how a negative binomial error is added to the abundance counts every time a sample is randomly drawn from the simulated assemblage in the BiogTest randomization algorithm.

Benchmark_tests.R – R code used to run all benchmark tests.

Chiapas_dataset.csv – Data set of 224 circular 0.1-ha plots from tropical montane cloud forests in three mountainous regions of southern Mexico.