adenophylla_arenaria {phyloclim}R Documentation

Niche overlap for Oxalis adenophylla and O. arenaria

Description

Objects equ and sim contain the results of the niche.equivalency.test and the bg.similarity.test (Warren et al. 2008) for Oxalis adenophylla and O. arenaria from section Palmatifoliae.

Usage

data(equ)
data(equ)

Format

A list containing five elements:

test
Name of the test.
spec
Names of the two species compared.
D
Measure of niche overlap D based on Schoeners D together with p-values.
I
Measure of niche overlap I based on Hellinger distances together with p-values.
null.distribution
Null distributions of D and I derived from randomization.

Source

C. Heibl, unpublished data.

References

Warren, D., R.E. Glor, & M. Turelli. 2008. Environmental niche equivalency versus conservatism: quantitative approaches to niche evolution. Evolution. 62: 2868-2883.

Examples

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

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

[Package phyloclim version 0.0.1 Index]