Code and data for "habtools: an R package to calculate 3D metrics for surfaces and objects"

This repository contains code and data needed to reproduce the figures and tables of the manuscript: Schiettekatte, Nina M.D., Asbury, Mollie, Chen, Guan-Yan, Dornelas, Maria, Reichert, Jessica, Torres-Pulliza, Damaris, Zawada, Kyle, Madin, Joshua S. (2025) (in press.) habtools: an R package to calculate 3D metrics for surfaces and objects. Methods in Ecology and Evolution This project does not present original data. Below are the original data source references. If data is used in other projects, these sources need to be cited. References: - NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network). Discrete return LiDAR point cloud (DP1.30003.001), RELEASE-2024. . Dataset accessed from - Torres-Pulliza, D., Dornelas, M.A., Pizarro, O., Bewley, M., Blowes, S.A., Boutros, N., Brambilla, V., Chase, T.J., Frank, G., Friedman, A., Hoogenboom, M.O., Williams, S., Zawada, K.J.A. & Madin, J.S. (2020). A geometric basis for surface habitat complexity and biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2020 4:11, 4, 1495–1501. - Zawada, K.J.A., Dornelas, M. & Madin, J.S. (2019). Quantifying coral morphology. Coral Reefs, 38, 1281–1292.