comCompete {EcoVirtual}

Multispecies competition-colonization tradeoff

Description

Simulates the trade-off between colonization and competition abilities in a multispecies system.

Usage

comCompete(rw, cl, S, fi, fsp1, pe, fr = 0, int = 0, tmax)

Arguments

rw

number of rows for the simulated landscape.

cl

number of columns for the simulated landscape.

S

number of species.

fi

initial fraction of patchs occupied

fsp1

superior competitor abundance.

pe

mortality rate.

fr

disturbance frequency.

int

disturbance intensity.

tmax

maximum simulation time.

Details

In the system, the competitive abilities are inversely proportional to the colonization abilities.

The number of patches in the simulated landscape is defined by rw*cl.

Value

'comCompete' returns a graph with the proportion of patches occupied in time by each species and the trade-off scale, the superior competitor in one side and the superior colonizator in the other.

Author(s)

Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira [e-mail]

References

Tilman. R. 1994. Competition and biodiversity in spatially structured habitats. Ecology,75:2-16.

Stevens, M.H.H. 2009. A primer in ecology with R. New York, Springer.

See Also

metaComp, http://ecovirtual.ib.usp.br

Examples

## Not run: 
comCompete(tmax=1000, rw=100, cl=100, S=10, fi=1, fsp1=0.20, pe=0.01, fr=0, int=0)

## End(Not run)