homoteneity {labdsv}R Documentation

Homoteneity Analysis of Classified Ecological Communities

Description

Homoteneity is defined as ‘the mean constancy of the S most constant species, expressed as a fraction, where S is the mean species richness of a type.’

Usage

homoteneity(taxa,clustering)

Arguments

taxa

a data.frame of species abundances with samples as rows and species as columns

clustering

a vector of (integer) class memberships, or an object of class ‘clustering’, class ‘partana’, of class partition

Value

a data.frame of homoteneity values

Note

This function was adapted from the Virginia Heritage Program at

http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/ncstatistics.shtml

Author(s)

David W. Roberts droberts@montana.edu

References

http://ecology.montana.msu.edu/labdsv/

See Also

const, concov

Examples

    data(bryceveg) # returns a data.frame of species in sample plots   
    data(brycesite) # returns a data.frame of site variables
    homoteneity(bryceveg,brycesite$quad) # analysis of species constancy
                                         # by USGS quad location

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