BAT – Biodiversity Assessment Tools, an R package for the measurement and estimation of alpha and beta taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity

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Predicting a global insect apocalypse (2019, background): “By choosing complementary climates and habitat types, the coverage of spatial settings can be optimised (Cardoso et al., 2015).”
A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography (2017, background): “How these measures of diversity respond to island ontogenetic change at the community level, and how they are influenced by other abiotic parameters [Qs 29–31] remains largely unexplored (but see Santos et al., 2011, 2016a; Whittaker et al., 2014; Cardoso et al., 2015).”
Functional diversity metrics using kernel density n-dimensional hypervolumes (2020, background): “The BAT package is an open platform that provides an assortment of functions for biodiversity assessment (Cardoso et al., 2015), with a special focus on the estimation of the three main components of biological diversity—taxonomic (TD), phylogenetic (PD) and functional (FD) diversity.”
Species invasions threaten the antiquity of China's freshwater fish fauna (2017, methodology): “0 (R Development Core Team, 2014) using the packages BAT (Cardoso et al., 2015) and VEGAN (Oksanen et al.”