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type: software
license: GPL-2.0-or-later
title: 'BioFTF: Biodiversity Assessment Using Hill-Number Functional Tools'
version: 3.0.0
doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.10.032
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.BioFTF
abstract: Tools for biodiversity assessment through Hill-number diversity profiles
  treated as functions of the order q. The package computes the profiles of Hill (1973)
  <https://doi.org/10.2307/1934352>, their analytical first and second derivatives,
  curvature, radius of curvature, arc length, cumulative integral functions, profile
  areas, area-based rankings and relative changes over time, together with static
  and interactive three-dimensional biodiversity surfaces. The functional approach
  follows Di Battista, Fortuna and Maturo (2017) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.10.032>,
  Maturo and Di Battista (2018) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.08.016> and
  Maturo (2018) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.03.013>.
authors:
- family-names: Maturo
  given-names: Fabrizio
  email: fabrizio.maturo@unimercatorum.it
- family-names: Fortuna
  given-names: Francesca
  email: francesca.fortuna@unich.it
- family-names: Di Battista
  given-names: Tonio
  email: dibattis@unich.it
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: 'BioFTF: An R package for biodiversity assessment with the functional data
    analysis approach'
  authors:
  - family-names: Di Battista
    given-names: Tonio
    email: dibattis@unich.it
  - family-names: Fortuna
    given-names: Francesca
    email: francesca.fortuna@unich.it
  - family-names: Maturo
    given-names: Fabrizio
    email: fabrizio.maturo@unimercatorum.it
  journal: Ecological Indicators
  year: '2017'
  volume: '73'
  doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.10.032
  start: '726'
  end: '732'
repository: https://fabriziomaturo.r-universe.dev
commit: 0ee2cc380e85a3898c4f9039bbe771784f6e496b
date-released: '2026-10-07'
contact:
- family-names: Maturo
  given-names: Fabrizio
  email: fabrizio.maturo@unimercatorum.it
references:
- type: article
  title: A functional approach to Hill's numbers for assessing changes in species
    variety of ecological communities over time
  authors:
  - family-names: Maturo
    given-names: Fabrizio
  - family-names: Di Battista
    given-names: Tonio
  journal: Ecological Indicators
  year: '2018'
  volume: '84'
  doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.08.016
  start: '70'
  end: '81'
- type: article
  title: Unsupervised classification of ecological communities ranked according to
    their biodiversity patterns via a functional principal component decomposition
    of Hill's numbers integral functions
  authors:
  - family-names: Maturo
    given-names: Fabrizio
  journal: Ecological Indicators
  year: '2018'
  volume: '90'
  doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.03.013
  start: '305'
  end: '315'