Paracou618.dist {entropart}R Documentation

Functional distances between pairs of species of Paracou field station plots 6 and 18, two 1-ha plots inventoried by the Bridge project.

Description

This dataset is from Paracou field station, French Guiana, managed by Cirad. Traits are detailed in Marcon and Herault (2014), the distance matrix was built following Paine et al. (2011).

Usage

data(Paracou618)

Format

An object of class dist.

Source

Permanent data census of Paracou.

References

Gourlet-Fleury, S., Guehl, J. M. and Laroussinie, O., Eds. (2004). Ecology & management of a neotropical rainforest. Lessons drawn from Paracou, a long-term experimental research site in French Guiana. Paris, Elsevier.

Marcon, E., Herault, B. (2015). Decomposing Phylodiversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6(3): 333-339.

Paine, C. E. T., Baraloto, C., Chave, J., and Herault, B. (2011). Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests. Oikos, 120(5), 720-727.

Examples

data(Paracou618)
plot(density(Paracou618.dist, from=0), main="Distances between species")

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