modEvA (version 2.0)

rotif.mods: Rotifer distribution models

Description

A set of generalized linear models of rotifer species distributions on TDWG level 4 regions of the world (Fontaneto et al. 2012), together with their predicted values. Mind that these models are provided just as sample data and have limited application, due to limitations in the underlying distribution records. See Details for more information.

Usage

data(rotif.mods)

Format

A list of 2 elements:

$ predictions: a data.frame with 291 observations of 60 variables, namely the presence probability (P) and environmental favourability (F) for each of 30 species of rotifers, obtained from the rotif.env dataset in the 'fuzzySim' R-Forge package

$ models: a list of the 30 generalized linear model (glm) objects which generated those predictions.

Details

These models were obtained with the 'multGLM' function and the rotif.env dataset from R-Forge package 'fuzzySim' using the following code:

require(fuzzySim)

data(rotif.env)

rotif.mods <- multGLM(data = rotif.env, sp.cols = 18:47, var.cols = 5:17, step = FALSE, trim = TRUE)

See package 'fuzzySim' (currently available on R-Forge at http://fuzzysim.r-forge.r-project.org) for more information on the source data that were used to build these models.

References

Fontaneto D., Barbosa A.M., Segers H. & Pautasso M. (2012) The 'rotiferologist' effect and other global correlates of species richness in monogonont rotifers. Ecography, 35: 174-182.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(rotif.mods)
head(rotif.mods$predictions)
rotif.mods$models[[1]]
# }