rangemapSim {fuzzySim} | R Documentation |
Pairwise similarity between rangemaps
Description
Calculate pairwise similarity among rangemaps from a matrix of their areas of intersection and union
Usage
rangemapSim(rangemap.matrix, total.area,
method = c("Jaccard", "Sorensen", "Simpson", "Baroni"),
diag = FALSE, upper = FALSE, verbosity = 2)
Arguments
rangemap.matrix |
a matrix like the one produced by function |
total.area |
numeric value indicating the total size of the study area, in the same units as the areas in the |
method |
character value indicating the similarity index to use. Currently implemented indices are "Jaccard", "Sorensen", "Simpson" and "Baroni". The default is the first one. |
diag |
logical value indicating if the diagonal of the resulting matrix should be filled |
upper |
logical value indicating if the upper triangle of the resulting matrix should be filled (symmetrical to the lower triangle) |
verbosity |
integer number indicating the amount of messages to display. |
Details
Distributional relationships among species are commonly determined based on pair-wise (dis)similarities in species' occurrence patterns. Some of the most commonly employed similarity indices are those of Jaccard (1901), Sorensen (1948), Simpson (1960) and Baroni-Urbani & Buser (1976), which are here implemented for comparing rangemaps based on their areas of intersection and union (Barbosa & Estrada, in press).
Value
This function returns a square matrix of pairwise similarities between the rangemaps in 'rangemap.matrix', calculated with the (first) similarity index specified in 'method'.
Author(s)
A. Marcia Barbosa
References
Barbosa A.M. & Estrada A. (in press) Calcular corotipos sin dividir el territorio en OGUs: una adaptacion de los indices de similitud para su utilizacion directa sobre areas de distribucion. In: Areas de distribucion: entre puentes y barreras. Universidad de Granada, Spain.
Baroni-Urbani C. & Buser M.W. (1976) Similarity of Binary Data. Systematic Zoology, 25: 251-259
Jaccard P. (1901) Etude comparative de la distribution florale dans une portion des Alpes et des Jura. Memoires de la Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, 37: 547-579
Simpson G.G. (1960) Notes on the measurement of faunal resemblance. Amer. J. Sci. 258A, 300-311
Sorensen T. (1948) A method of establishing groups of equal amplitude in plant sociology based on similarity of species and its application to analyses of the vegetation on Danish commons. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 5(4): 1-34
See Also
pairwiseRangemaps
; simFromSetOps
; simMat