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  <dc:title>Niche Region and Niche Overlap Metrics for Multidimensional
Ecological Niches</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package nicheROVER version 1.1.2</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Implementation of a probabilistic method to calculate 'nicheROVER' (_niche_ _r_egion and niche _over_lap) metrics using multidimensional niche indicator data (e.g., stable isotopes, environmental variables, etc.). The niche region is defined as the joint probability density function of the multidimensional niche indicators at a user-defined probability alpha (e.g., 95%).  Uncertainty is accounted for in a Bayesian framework, and the method can be extended to three or more indicator dimensions.  It provides directional estimates of niche overlap, accounts for species-specific distributions in multivariate niche space, and produces unique and consistent bivariate projections of the multivariate niche region.  The article by Swanson et al. (2015) &lt;doi:10.1890/14-0235.1&gt; provides a detailed description of the methodology.  See the package vignette for a worked example using fish stable isotope data.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 1.9.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: graphics, stats, utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Martin Lysy &lt;mlysy@uwaterloo.ca&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Martin Lysy [aut, cre],
  Ashley D. Stasko [aut],
  Heidi K. Swanson [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2023-10-13</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nicheROVER</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.nicheROVER</dc:identifier>
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