Preprocessing of metacommunity data
Preprocess.MC.RdCalculates summary statistics of a metacommunity
Details
This is an internal function. It is used by MetaCommunity for real data and DivEst for simulations.
Value
An object of class MetaCommunity. It is a list:
- Nsi
A matrix containing abundance data, species in line, communities in column
- Nspecies
The number of species
- Ncommunities
The number of communities
- Wi
Normalized community weights (sum to 1)
- N
The total number of individuals
- Ni
A vector containing the number of individuals of each community
- Ns
A vector containing the number of individuals of each species
- Psi
A matrix whose columns are the probability vectors of communities (each of them sums to 1)
- Ps
A vector containing the probability vector of the metacommunity
- SampleCoverage
The sample coverage of the metacommunity
- SampleCoverage.communities
A vector containing the sample coverages of each community