persistR is a package designed to assess the response capacity of natural communities and gain insights into post-disturbance dynamics. persistR includes a set of functions to calculate different quantitative indices and apply descriptive analyses of post-disturbance dynamics:
- Calculate the response capacity of natural communities to disturbances based on species response traits (Sánchez-Pinillos et al. 2016)
- Calculate resistance and resilience indices based on dissimilarities between different temporal states defined in relation to the occurrence of a disturbance (Sánchez-Pinillos et al. 2019)
- Assess post-disturbance dynamics of natural communities through dynamical pathways represented in a multidimensional space (Sánchez-Pinillos et al. 2019).
devtools::install_github("MSPinillos/persistR")Sánchez-Pinillos, M., Coll, L., De Cáceres, M., Ameztegui, A. 2016. Assessing the persistence capacity of communities facing natural disturbances on the basis of species response traits. Ecol. Indic. 66, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.01.024
Sánchez-Pinillos, M., Leduc, A., Ameztegui, A. Kneeshaw, D., Lloret, F., Coll, L. 2019. Resistance, resilience or change: post-disturbance dynamics of boreal forests after insect outbreaks. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00378-6