R package to calculate ecological index of disturbance for pollen assemblage

Date (version)  : v0.2.1, 30 Jun 2026
Author          : Petr Kuneš
Email           : petr.kunes@natur.cuni.cz
Citation        : Kuneš, P., Abraham, V., & Herben, T. (2019). 
                  Changing disturbance-diversity relationships in temperate
                  ecosystems over the past 12000 years. Journal of Ecology, 
                  107(4), 1678–1688. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13136

How do you install the package from GitHub?

1. First, you need to install the devtools package. Run R and then type

install.packages("devtools")

2. Load the devtools package.

library(devtools)

3. In most cases, you just use install_github() function.

install_github("petrkunes/PolEco")

4. Load the PolEco package

library(PolEco)

5. Run the example calculation

Eco.Index(PC_Prasilske[1:102,], pollen_plant_dist_2019)