data(caruso)
caruso
is a data frame with 194 observations on 5
variables. Each row corresponds to a species; the observations (rows)
are the species abundances in each of 5 habitats.Following Migliorini et al 2002, the habitats were:
Beech
Coppice
Grassland
Heathland
Biancana
Within each habitat, several soil samples were collected (five randomly located replicates per each month: see the paper Migliorini et al. 2002). So, actually, that is a network of small samples that make a single large sample.
The five study areas of this data set belong to five habitats that are very typical of that Mediterranean region. These five areas also belong to a rather homogeneous biogeographical region (southern Tuscany). On the ground of what is known on the biology and community patterns of Oribatida, several a-priori hypotheses can be made on expected changes in the diversity of their assemblages and immigration rates respectively between and within the five areas. For instance, under the Neutral Model one might expect that the Beech forest should have the highest Theta and an immigration rate of about 1, while one might expect the opposite for the Biancana (a very arid habitat, a kind of gariga/garrigue with very patchy vegetation).
extractor
data(caruso)
summary(count(caruso[,1]))
optimal.params.sloss(caruso)
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