diameter {treestats}

Diameter statistic

Description

The Diameter of a tree is defined as the maximum length of a shortest path. When taking branch lengths into account, this is equal to twice the crown age.

Usage

diameter(phy, weight = FALSE)

Arguments

phy

phylo object or ltable

weight

if TRUE, uses branch lengths.

Value

Diameter

References

Chindelevitch, Leonid, et al. "Network science inspires novel tree shape statistics." PloS one 16.12 (2021): e0259877.