Optimization of the Ewens/Caswell neutral model program for community diversity analysis
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Inter-Research Science Center in Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Vol. 50 (3) , 255-261
- https://doi.org/10.3354/meps050255
Abstract
The neutral model program of Ewens (1972) was introduced into ecology by Caswell (1976) and has become a useful tool for benthic ecology. Lambshead and Platt (1988) noted that Ewens''s program presented serious computational problems which could not be effectively overcome by subsampling or by substitution of a simpler equitability method. In this paper a modified program is presented which greatly reduces these computational difficulties, making it suitable for personal computers.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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