Preprocessing of metacommunity data
Preprocess.MC.Rd
Calculates summary statistics of a metacommunity
Arguments
- Nsi
A matrix containing abundance data, species in line, communities in column.
- Wi
Normalized community weights (sum to 1).
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