Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) are state variables with dimensions on time, space, and biological organization that document biodiversity change. Freely available ecosystem remote sensing products (ERSP) are downloaded and integrated with data for national or regional domains to derive indicators for EBV in the class ecosystem structure (Pereira et al., 2013) <doi:10.1126/science.1229931>, including horizontal ecosystem extents, fragmentation, and information-theory indices. To process ERSP, users must provide a polygon or geographic administrative data map. Downloadable ERSP include Global Surface Water (Peckel et al., 2016) <doi:10.1038/nature20584>, Forest Change (Hansen et al., 2013) <doi:10.1126/science.1244693>, and Continuous Tree Cover data (Sexton et al., 2013) <doi:10.1080/17538947.2013.786146>.

Work with the Ecological Community Data Design Pattern. 'ecocomDP' 
    is a flexible data model for harmonizing ecological community surveys, in a 
    research question agnostic format, from source data published across 
    repositories, and with methods that keep the derived data up-to-date as the 
    underlying sources change. Described in O'Brien et al. (2021), 
    <doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101374>.

Creates 'graphs' of species associations (interactions) and ordination biplots from 
    co-occurrence data by fitting discrete gaussian copula graphical models. Methods described in
    Popovic, GC., Hui, FKC., Warton, DI., (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2017.12.002>.

Biotracers and stomach content analyses are combined in a Bayesian hierarchical model
    to estimate a probabilistic topology matrix (all trophic link probabilities) and a diet matrix 
    (all diet proportions).
    The package relies on the JAGS software and the 'jagsUI' package to run a Markov chain Monte Carlo 
    approximation of the different variables.

Dissimilarity-based analysis functions including ordination and Mantel test functions, intended for use with spatial and community ecological data. The original package description is in Goslee and Urban (2007) <doi:10.18637/jss.v022.i07>, with further statistical detail in Goslee (2010) <doi:10.1007/s11258-009-9641-0>.