Biodiverse is a tool for the spatial analysis of diversity using indices based on taxonomic, phylogenetic and matrix-based (e.g. genetic distance) relationships, as well as related environmental and temporal variations. Biodiverse supports four processes:

 

(1) linked visualisation of data distributions in geographic, taxonomic, phylogenetic and matrix spaces;

 

(2) spatial moving window analyses including richness, endemism, phylogenetic diversity and beta diversity;

 

(3) spatially constrained agglomerative cluster analyses;

 

(4) randomisations for hypothesis testing.

 

Biodiverse is open-source and supports user developed extensions. It can be used both through a graphical user interface (GUI) and through user written scripts.

For details see http://www.biodiverse.unsw.edu.au