JUICE
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For other uses, see Juice (disambiguation).
JUICE is a widely used non-commercial software package for editing and analysing phytosociological data.
It was developed at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic in 1998, and is fully described in . It make uses of the previously-developed TURBOVEG software for entering and storing such data) and it offers a quite powerful tool for vegetation data analysis, including:
- creation of synoptic tables
- determination of diagnostic species according to their fidelity
- calculation of Ellenberg indicator values for relevés, various indices of alpha and beta diversity
- classification of relevés using TWINSPAN or cluster analysis
- expert system for vegetation classification based on COCKTAIL method etc.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Tichy, L. 2002. JUICE, software for vegetation classification. J. Veg. Sci. 13: 451-453. (Basic scientific article on the program).
[edit] Uses in scientific journals
- Pyšek P., Jarošík V., Chytrý M., Kropáč Z., Tichý L. & Wild J. 2005. Alien plants in temperate weed communities: prehistoric and recent invaders occupy different habitats. Ecology 86: 772–785.
- Ewald, J A critique for phytosociology Journal of Vegetation Science (April 2003) 14(2)291-296
- JL Betti, An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants among the Baka Pygmies in the Dja biosphere reserve. African Study Monographs, (March 2004) 25(1): 1-27
