MULVA 5.1

WHAT IS IT?
It is the same program as described in 1996: Wildi, O. & Orlóci, L. (1996): Numerical Exploration of Community Patterns. A guide to the use of MULVA-5. 2nd edition. SPB Academic Publishing b.v., Amsterdam, 171 pp.

But of course with some new things in it...

WHY M5.1 INSTEAD OF M5?

(1) There is more in it. See, e.g., the following publication: Wildi, O., Schütz, M., 2000: Reconstruction of a long-term recovery process from pasture to forest. Community Ecology 1 (1): 25-32.

(2) While porting on Mac OS X (10.3.2) I fixed several bugs the new compilers identified.

(3) I found that all new FTN-Compilers have troubles to handle tabulators consistently. In M5.1, files have to be imported in EXCEL-CSV format or TEXT, using SEMICOLONS as separators.

(4) M5.1 on OS X has improved performance compared to previous versions. The capacity is 5000 releves/species. 3000 Eigenvalues can be computed.

MAC OS X USERS

Important note: Files must be UNIX-type (see below)!
1 — IMPLEMENTATION Drag the folder M51_OSX into your Documents folder. That's all!
2 — USING YOUR OWN DATA SETS You have to change the line-endings, e.g., with program Project Builder to ³UNIX type².
3 — USING EXPORT FILES Opening files generated in M5.1 in MS-Word (drag files on the Word icon) Automatically changes line-endings to Macintosh-type.

WINDOWS USERS

This is not yet available. We are working hard on it!

LINUX USERS?

Are there any? I would enjoy doing something for you!

5. 4. 2004 Otto Wildi

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