NetIndices-package {NetIndices}

Estimates network indices, including trophic structure of foodwebs

Description

Given a network (e.g. a food web), estimates several network indices.

These include:

• ascendency network indices,

• direct and indirect dependencies,

• effective measures,

• environ network indices,

• general network indices,

• pathway analysis,

• network uncertainty indices and constraint efficiencies

• the trophic level and omnivory indices of food webs.

Details

Package:	NetIndices
Type:	Package
Version:	1.4.1
Date:	2010-11-01
License:	GNU Public License 2 or above

Author(s)

Karline Soetaert (Maintainer), Netherlands Institute of Ecology

Julius Kipyegon Kones, University of Nairobi

References

Kones, J.K., Soetaert, K., van Oevelen, D. and J.Owino (2009). Are network indices robust indicators of food web functioning? a Monte Carlo approach. Ecological Modelling, 220, 370-382.

Examples

## Not run: 
## show examples (see respective help pages for details)
example(AscInd)
example(TrophInd)
example(Takapoto)

## open the directory with script used to write the Kones et al. (2009) article
browseURL(paste(system.file(package="NetIndices"), "/EcologicalModelling", sep=""))

## open the directory with documents
browseURL(paste(system.file(package="NetIndices"), "/doc", sep=""))

## the vignette
vignette("NetIndices")

## End(Not run)