simdata() now includes the newjitter.base parameter, which allows controlled stochasticperturbations of site-level parameters. This feature increasesvariability among simulated communities, particularly in nested designs(e.g., sites within regions), where previous versions tended to generateunrealistically similar communities. By applying mild randomness tooccurrence and abundance probabilities,simdata() producessimulated data sets with multivariate dispersion closer to empiricalexpectations.
The use ofjitter.base is optional (defaultjitter.base = 0), so existing workflows remain unchanged.Users who wish to reproduce the behavior of earlier versions can simplyignore this parameter. For reproducibility, remember to useset.seed() before callingsimdata().
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