Meta-Community diversity class. — MCdiversity • entropart

Methods for objects of type "MCdiversity".

Usage

is.MCdiversity(x)
# S3 method for class 'MCdiversity'
plot(x, ...)
# S3 method for class 'MCdiversity'
autoplot(object, col = "grey35",
          border = NA, ...)
# S3 method for class 'MCdiversity'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

x: An object to be tested or plotted.
object: A MCdiversity object to be summarized or plotted.
col: The color used to fill the bars. See "Color Specification" in par.
border: The color of the borders around the bars. See hist.
...: Additional arguments to be passed to the generic methods.

Value

Meta-community diversity objects are lists containing:

MetaCommunity: The name of the MetaCommunity object containing inventory data.
Type: The type of diversity ("alpha", "beta" or "gamma").
Order: The order of diversity \(q\).
Correction: The estimation bias correction used to calculate diversity.
Tree: The phylogenetic or functional tree used to calculate phylodiversity.
Normalized: Logical. Indicates whether phylodiversity is normalized or proportional to the height of the tree.
Weights: A vector containing the weights of communities.
Communities: A vector containing the diversity of communities.
Total: The total diversity.

is.MCdiversity returns TRUE if the object is of class MCdiversity.

summary.MCdiversity returns a summary of the object's value.