Calculates summary statistics of a metacommunity

Preprocess.MC(Nsi, Wi)

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

Author

Eric Marcon <Eric.Marcon@ecofog.gf>