intro_comm {soilfoodwebs}

A baseline community for examples

Description

The community contains seven nodes generally meant to represent oribatid mites feeding on microorganisms and detritus.

Usage

intro_comm

Format

A community with a feeding matrix and properties dataframe:

imat

The feeding matrix. Rows eat columns.

prop

The properties data frame containing node names (ID), assimilation efficiency (a), production efficiency(p), C:N ratio (CN), biomass (B), death rate (d), proportion of death cycled back to a detrital pool (DetritusRecycling), Booleans stating whether the node is detritus, plant, and can immobilize nitrogen, and a list of mutual predators.

Source

Example not based on real empirical data.