assign_guild_ants: Assign Functional Guilds for Ants

In AntClassify: Functional Guilds, Invasion Status, Endemism, and Rarity of Ants

Assign Functional Guilds for Ants

Description

Classifies ants into functional guilds using four different ecological databases.

Usage

assign_guild_ants(
  comm,
  verbose = TRUE,
  plot = TRUE,
  validate = TRUE,
  delay = 0.5
)

Arguments

comm	A community matrix where species are columns and samples are rows.
verbose	Logical; if TRUE, displays progress messages.
plot	Logical; if TRUE, displays guild proportion plots.
validate	Logical; if TRUE, validates species names using GBIF before analysis.
delay	Numeric; seconds to wait between GBIF API calls when validate = TRUE.

Value

Invisibly returns a list with two elements:

table	A data frame containing species, abundance, percentage, and guild assignments from each system.
plots	A list of four ggplot2 objects, one for each guild classification system.

AntClassify documentation built on Sept. 4, 2026, 1:06 a.m.