species.dist {picante}R Documentation

Species co-occurrence distances

Description

Compute interspecific distances based on patterns of species co-occurrence in communities.

Usage

species.dist(x, metric = c("cij", "jaccard", "checkerboard", "roij"))

Arguments

x Community data matrix
metric
cij
Schoener's index of co-occurrence
jaccard
Jaccard index of co-occurrence
checkerboard
Checkerboard index of co-occurrence
roij
ROij index of co-occurrence

Value

A dist object with co-occurrences among all species pairs

Author(s)

Steve Kembel <skembel@berkeley.edu>

References

Hardy, O. In press. Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities : statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community. Journal of Ecology.

See Also

vegdist


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