BAT (version 2.1.1)

gdm: General dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography (GDM).

Description

Fits and compares several of the most supported models for the GDM (using TD, PD or FD).

Usage

gdm(comm, tree, area, time)

Arguments

comm

Either a vector with the diversity values per island, or an island x species matrix.

tree

An hclust or phylo object (used only to fit the PD or FD GDM, requires comm to be a sites x species matrix).

area

A vector with the area of islands.

time

A vector with the age of islands. If not given, the species-area relationship is returned instead.

Value

A matrix with the different model parameters and explanatory power.

Details

The general dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography was proposed to account for diversity patterns within and across oceanic archipelagos as a function of area and age of the islands (Whittaker et al. 2008). Several different equations have been found to describe the GDM, extending the different SAR models with the addition of a polynomial term using island age and its square (TT2), depicting the island ontogeny. The first to be proposed was an extension of the exponential model (Whittaker et al. 2008), the power model extensions following shortly after (Fattorini 2009; Steinbauer et al. 2013), as was the linear model (Cardoso et al. subm.). The relationships for PD and FD are calculated based on a tree (hclust or phylo object, no need to be ultrametric).

References

Cardoso, P., Borges, P.A.V., Carvalho, J.C., Rigal, F., Gabriel, R., Cascalho, J. & Correia, L. (subm.) Automated discovery of relationships, models and principles in ecology. Pre-print available from bioRxiv doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/027839

Fattorini, S. (2009) On the general dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 36: 1100-1110.

Steinbauer, M.J, Klara, D., Field, R., Reineking, B. & Beierkuhnlein, C. (2013) Re-evaluating the general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography. Frontiers of Biogeography, 5: 185-194.

Whittaker, R.J., Triantis, K.A. & Ladle, R.J. (2008) A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 35: 977-994.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
div <- c(1,3,5,8,10)
comm <- matrix(c(2,0,0,0,3,1,0,0,2,4,5,0,1,3,2,5,1,1,1,1), nrow = 5, ncol = 4, byrow = TRUE)
tree <- hclust(dist(c(1:4), method="euclidean"), method="average")
area <- c(10,40,80,160,160)
time <- c(1,2,3,4,5)
gdm(div,,area,time)
gdm(comm,tree,area,time)
gdm(div,,area)
# }