picante (version 0.4-0)

species.dist: Species co-occurrence distances

Description

Compute interspecific distances based on patterns of species co-occurrence in communities.

Usage

species.dist(x, metric = c("cij", "jaccard", "checkerboard", "roij"))

Arguments

x

Community data matrix

metric

cij{ Schoener's index of co-occurrence } jaccard{ Jaccard index of co-occurrence } checkerboard{ Checkerboard index of co-occurrence } roij{ ROij index of co-occurrence }

Value

• A dist object with co-occurrences among all species pairs

References

Hardy, O. In press. Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities : statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community. Journal of Ecology.

See Also

vegdist