Dear Jean Asuncion Utzurrum

For using EstimateS, check this paper:

Colwell & Elsensohn. (2014). EstimateS turns 20: statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples, with non-parametric extrapolation

You may also want to check more functions to compute beta diversity in R package vegan, such as vegdist(), betadisper()...

Best,

Tan

Hi, Jean:

I have been using EstimateS for years, but only in order to estimate species richness and diversity (I mean, alpha diversity). As you probably know, EstimateS now computes 'true measures' of species diversity (i.e., those expressed as the "equivalent number of species", like those promoted by Lou Jost and many others, including myself:

Article Midiendo la diversidad biológica: más allá del índice de Shannon

After your question, I really feel curious about what you have found about the use of this excellent piece of software for computing beta diversity. So, if you could share your results with us, that would be great!

Best regards:

Jose