niche.width {spaa} | R Documentation |
Niche width
Description
Compute niche width for all the species in a community.
Usage
niche.width(mat, method = c("shannon", "levins"))
Arguments
mat |
A community matrix with columns representing species, and rows representing plots. |
method |
Character string showing the name of the index. |
Value
A vetor containing niche width for all the species in the community.
Author(s)
Jinlong Zhang jinlongzhang01@gmail.com
References
Zhang Jin-tun,(2004 ) Quantitative Ecology, Science Press, Beijing
See Also
niche.overlap
for niche overlap
Examples
data(datasample)
niche.width(datasample, method = "levins")
niche.width(datasample, method = "shannon")
[Package spaa version 0.2.5 Index]