Estimates diversity of a metacommunity.

DivEst(q = 0, MC, Biased = TRUE, Correction = "Best", Tree = NULL,
Normalize = TRUE, Z = NULL, Simulations = 100,
ShowProgressBar = TRUE, CheckArguments = TRUE)
is.DivEst(x)
# S3 method for DivEst
plot(x, ..., main = NULL, Which = "All",
Quantiles = c(0.025, 0.975), colValue = "red", lwdValue = 2, ltyValue = 2,
colQuantiles = "black", lwdQuantiles = 1, ltyQuantiles = 2)
# S3 method for DivEst
autoplot(object, ..., main = NULL, Which = "All",
labels = NULL, font.label = list(size=11, face="plain"),
Quantiles = c(0.025, 0.975), colValue = "red",
colQuantiles = "black", ltyQuantiles = 2)
# S3 method for DivEst
summary(object, ...)

## Arguments

q A number: the order of diversity. A MetaCommunity object. Logical; if FALSE, a bias correction is appplied. A string containing one of the possible corrections. The correction must be accepted by DivPart. "Best" is the default value. An object of class hclust, phylo, phylog or PPtree. The tree must be ultrametric. If TRUE (default), diversity is not affected by the height of the tree.. If FALSE, diversity is proportional to the height of the tree. A relatedness matrix, i.e. a square matrix whose terms are all positive, strictly positive on the diagonal. Generally, the matrix is a similarity matrix, i.e. the diagonal terms equal 1 and other terms are between 0 and 1. The number of simulations to build confidence intervals. If TRUE (default), a progress bar is shown. Logical; if TRUE, the function arguments are verified. Should be set to FALSE to save time when the arguments have been checked elsewhere. An object to be tested or plotted. The title of the plot. May be "Alpha", "Beta" or "Gamma" to respectively plot the metacommunity's alpha, beta or gamma diversity. If "All" (default), all three plots are shown. Vector of labels to be added to multiple plots. "auto" is the same as c("a", "b", "c", "d)". A list of arguments to customize labels. See ggarrange. A MCdiversity object to be summarized or plotted. A vector containing the quantiles of interest. The color of the line representing the real value on the plot. The width of the line representing the real value on the plot. The line type of the line representing the real value on the plot. The color of the lines representing the quantiles on the plot. The width of the lines representing the quantiles on the plot. The line type of the lines representing the quantiles on the plot. Additional arguments to be passed to the generic methods.

## Details

Divest estimates the diversity of the metacommunity and partitions it into alpha and beta components.

If Tree is provided, the phylogenetic diversity is calculated else if Z is not NULL, then similarity-based entropy is calculated.

Bootstrap confidence intervals are calculated by drawing simulated communities from a multinomial distribution following the observed frequencies (Marcon et al, 2012; 2014).

## Value

A Divest object which is a DivPart object with an additional item in its list:

SimulatedDiversity

A matrix containing the simulated values of alpha, beta and gamma diversity.

Divest objects can be summarized and plotted.

## References

Marcon, E., Herault, B., Baraloto, C. and Lang, G. (2012). The Decomposition of Shannon's Entropy and a Confidence Interval for Beta Diversity. Oikos 121(4): 516-522.

Marcon, E., Scotti, I., Herault, B., Rossi, V. and Lang, G. (2014). Generalization of the partitioning of Shannon diversity. PLOS One 9(3): e90289.

Marcon, E., Herault, B. (2015). Decomposing Phylodiversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6(3): 333-339.

## Author

Eric Marcon <Eric.Marcon@ecofog.gf> and Bruno Herault <Bruno.Herault@ecofog.gf>

DivPart

## Examples

# Load Paracou data (number of trees per species in two 1-ha plot of a tropical forest)
data(Paracou618)
# Estimate Shannon diversity.
Estimation <- DivEst(q = 1, Paracou618.MC, Biased = FALSE, Correction = "UnveilJ",
Simulations = 20)
#> plot(Estimation)
#> Warning: NAs introduced by coercion#> Warning: NAs introduced by coercion#> Warning: NAs introduced by coercion#> Warning: NAs introduced by coercion#> Warning: NAs introduced by coercion#> Warning: NAs introduced by coercionsummary(Estimation)
#> Diversity partitioning of order 1 of MetaCommunity Paracou618.MC
#>  with correction: UnveilJ
#> Alpha diversity of communities:
#>     P006     P018
#>  83.7268 118.2713
#> Total alpha diversity of the communities:
#> [1] 97.06467
#> Beta diversity of the communities:
#>  UnveilJ
#> 1.422843
#> Gamma diversity of the metacommunity:
#>  UnveilJ
#> 138.1078
#> Quantiles of simulations (alpha, beta and gamma diversity):
#>        0%        1%      2.5%        5%       10%       25%       50%       75%
#>  89.64103  90.10350  90.79720  91.95337  92.86043  93.85074  96.91485  98.49928
#>       90%       95%     97.5%       99%      100%
#> 104.11466 104.28565 105.25133 105.83074 106.21701
#>       0%       1%     2.5%       5%      10%      25%      50%      75%
#> 1.347289 1.354156 1.364457 1.381624 1.384839 1.407170 1.433999 1.442474
#>      90%      95%    97.5%      99%     100%
#> 1.450413 1.459604 1.466567 1.470745 1.473531
#>       0%       1%     2.5%       5%      10%      25%      50%      75%
#> 129.3010 129.7963 130.5392 131.7774 133.6159 134.6326 138.3291 141.3829
#>      90%      95%    97.5%      99%     100%
#> 143.4091 146.1764 146.4703 146.6466 146.7641