Provides access to the 'Native Status Resolver' (NSR) <https://github.com/ojalaquellueva/nsr> API through R. The user supplies plant taxonomic names and political divisions and the package returns information about their likely native status (e.g., native, non-native,endemic), along with information on how those decisions were made.

A collection of statistical tools for objective (non-supervised) applications 
             of the Regional Frequency Analysis methods in hydrology. 
             The package refers to the index-value method and, more precisely, helps the
             hydrologist to: (1) regionalize the index-value; (2) form homogeneous regions 
             with similar growth curves; (3) fit distribution functions to the 
             empirical regional growth curves.
             Most of the methods are those described in the Flood Estimation Handbook 
            (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 1999, ISBN:9781906698003).
             Homogeneity tests from Hosking and Wallis (1993) <doi:10.1029/92WR01980> 
             and Viglione et al. (2007) <doi:10.1029/2006WR005095> are available.

Tools for estimating Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves,
        building confidence bands, comparing several curves both for dependent and 
        independent data, estimating the cumulative-dynamic ROC curve in presence of
        censored data, and performing meta-analysis studies, among others.

To estimate ecological stochasticity in community assembly. Understanding the community assembly mechanisms controlling biodiversity patterns is a central issue in ecology. Although it is generally accepted that both deterministic and stochastic processes play important roles in community assembly, quantifying their relative importance is challenging. The new index, normalized stochasticity ratio (NST), is to estimate ecological stochasticity, i.e. relative importance of stochastic processes, in community assembly. With functions in this package, NST can be calculated based on different similarity metrics and/or different null model algorithms, as well as some previous indexes, e.g. previous Stochasticity Ratio (ST), Standard Effect Size (SES), modified Raup-Crick metrics (RC). Functions for permutational test and bootstrapping analysis are also included. Previous ST is published by Zhou et al (2014) <doi:10.1073/pnas.1324044111>. NST is modified from ST by considering two alternative situations and normalizing the index to range from 0 to 1 (Ning et al 2019) <doi:10.1073/pnas.1904623116>. A modified version, MST, is a special case of NST, used in some recent or upcoming publications, e.g. Liang et al (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.108023>. SES is calculated as described in Kraft et al (2011) <doi:10.1126/science.1208584>. RC is calculated as reported by Chase et al (2011) <doi:10.1890/ES10-00117.1> and Stegen et al (2013) <doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.93>. Version 3 added NST based on phylogenetic beta diversity, used by Ning et al (2020) <doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18560-z>.