niche.overlap {spaa} | R Documentation |
Niche overlap between each pair of species
Description
Compute niche overlap between each pair of species.
Usage
niche.overlap(mat, method = c("levins", "schoener",
"petraitis", "pianka", "czech", "morisita"))
Arguments
mat |
A community matrix with columns representing species, and rows representing plots. |
method |
A string specifying the name of the index. |
Details
To add.
Value
A distance matrix contains niche overlap index between each pair of species.
Author(s)
Jinlong Zhang jinlongzhang01@gmail.com
References
Zhang Jin-tun,(2004 ) Quantitative Ecology, Science Press, Beijing
Nicholas J. Gotelli. 2000. Null model analysis of species co-occurrence patterns. Ecology 81:2606-2621. http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E081/022/EcoSim
See Also
Examples
data(datasample)
niche.overlap(datasample, method = "levins")
[Package spaa version 0.2.5 Index]