genusToSpecies: Genus to Species Conversion

In BEQI2: Benthic Ecosystem Quality Index 2

Description

For each sample, the algorithm tries to convert taxa on the genus level to the species level. Counts at the genus level will be distributed over the species level proportional to the available number of species.

Usage

genusToSpecies(id, taxon, count)

Arguments

id	sample identifier
taxon	taxon name on either the genus or species level
count	total number of individuals of a specific taxon in a sample

Value

data.frame with three columns: id the sample identifier, taxon the taxon name, and count the count after genus to species conversion.

Note

The updated counts are not necessarily integers.

Examples

genusToSpecies(id = c(1, 1, 1),
         taxon = c("Genus1", "Genus1 s1", "Genus1 s2"), count = c(4, 2, 1))

BEQI2 documentation built on May 2, 2019, 8:19 a.m.