plotNicheEquivalency {phyloclim}R Documentation

Visualize results of niche equivalency and background similarity tests.

Description

This functions plot the estimates of niche overlap D and I together with their expected null distribution based on randomization.

Usage

plotNicheEquivalency(x)

plotBackgroundSimilarity(x)

Arguments

x A list with five elements: (1) type of test, (2) species names, (3) D, (4) I, and (5) null distributions as produced by niche.equivalency.test and bg.similarity.test.

Author(s)

Christoph Heibl (heibl@lmu.de)

See Also

niche.equivalency.test, bg.similarity.test, niche.overlap

Examples

# plot results of niche equivalency test
data(equ)
plotNicheEquivalency(equ)

# plot results of background similarity test
data(sim)
plotBackgroundSimilarity(sim)

# These results suggest that O. adenophylla and O. arenaria
# differ significantly in their climatic niches, but their niches 
# are neither more nor less similar than expacted by chance. 

[Package phyloclim version 0.0.1 Index]