norm_meta_alpha {rdiversity}

Normalised metacommunity alpha diversity

Description

Calculates similarity-sensitive normalised metacommunity alpha diversity (the average similarity-sensitive diversity of subcommunities). This measure may be calculated for a series of orders, represented as a vector of qs.

Usage

norm_meta_alpha(meta, qs)

Arguments

meta

object of class metacommunity

qs

vector of mode numeric containing q values

Value

norm_meta_alpha returns a standard output of class rdiv

References

R. Reeve, T. Leinster, C. Cobbold, J. Thompson, N. Brummitt, S. Mitchell, and L. Matthews. 2016. How to partition diversity. arXiv 1404.6520v3:1–9.

Examples

pop <- data.frame(a = c(1,3), b = c(1,1))
row.names(pop) <- paste0("sp", 1:2)
pop <- pop/sum(pop)
meta <- metacommunity(pop)

# Calculate normalised metacommunity alpha diversity
norm_meta_alpha(meta, 0:2)