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  <dc:title>Fast Spatial Species Accumulation Curves</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package spacc version 0.8.3</dc:title>
  <dc:description>High-performance spatial species accumulation curves using
    nearest-neighbor algorithms. Implements 'kNN' and 'kNCN' sampling methods
    with a 'C++' backend for speed. Supports Hill numbers (q=0,1,2), beta
    diversity partitioning (turnover/nestedness), coverage-based rarefaction
    and extrapolation, phylogenetic diversity (Faith's PD, mean pairwise
    distance, mean nearest taxon distance), functional diversity accumulation,
    diversity-area relationships (DAR), endemism-area curves, sampling-effort
    correction and fragmentation analysis, and species-area relationship (SAR)
    models based on extreme value theory (EVT). Multiple starting points
    (seeds) provide uncertainty quantification.
    Methods are described in 'Chao' et al. (2014) &lt;doi:10.1890/13-0133.1&gt;,
    'Baselga' (2010) &lt;doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00490.x&gt;,
    'Chao' and 'Jost' (2012) &lt;doi:10.1890/11-1952.1&gt;,
    'Faith' (1992) &lt;doi:10.1016/0006-3207(92)91201-3&gt;,
    'Ma' (2018) &lt;doi:10.1002/ece3.4526&gt;,
    'Borda-de-Agua' et al. (2025) &lt;doi:10.1038/s41467-025-59239-7&gt;,
    'Hanski' et al. (2013) &lt;doi:10.1073/pnas.1311190110&gt;,
    and 'Jost' (2007) &lt;doi:10.1890/06-1736.1&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: Rcpp, RcppParallel, stats, parallel</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppParallel</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, svglite, ggplot2, cli,
sf, areaOfEffect, ape, iNEXT, betapart, cluster</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Gilles Colling &lt;gilles.colling051@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Gilles Colling [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3070-6066&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=spacc/LICENSE)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-06-20</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=spacc</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.spacc</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
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