diversityoccu: Calculates alpha diversity from multiple species occupancy...

In DiversityOccupancy: Building Diversity Models from Multiple Species Occupancy Models

Description

This function takes a data.frame with multiple presence absence-data from various species in different sites, covariates of each site to calculate occupancy, variables specific to sampling days to calculate probability of detection, and it calculates the alpha diversity for each site.

Usage

diversityoccu(pres, sitecov, obscov, spp, form, index = "shannon",
  dredge = FALSE)

Arguments

pres	a data.frame where rows are the sites and columns are a series of presence-absence observation from multiple species, every species needs to have the same number of observations.
sitecov	a data.frame where every row is a site, and every column is a measurement of that site, such as elevation or slope, this covariates are usually more constant.
obscov	a list where every element is a data frame with the daily covariates for each site, that is a measurement for each day, such as average temperature of a day, this covariates are usually very .
spp	the number of species in the pres data.frame
form	a formula in the format ~ obscov ~ sitcov, the first arguments will be used to calculate probability of detection and the second part the occupancy.
index	Diversity index, one of "shannon", "simpson" or "invsimpson".
dredge	default = FALSE, if TRUE, for each species, the best occupancy model will be determined by fitting all possible models and ranking by AICc.

Details

This function fits the latent abundance mixture model described in Royle and Nichols (2003), to calculate the abundance of every species in each site, the using that abundance it calculates the alpha diversity index for each site based on that abundance.

Value

A list with the fitted models for each species, the calculated Alpha diversity for each site, and a dataframe with the abundance of each species and diversity.

Author(s)

Derek Corcoran <[e-mail]>

Nicole L. Michel

Mike Meredith

See Also

diversity

model.diversity

Examples

## Not run: 
#Load the data
data("IslandBirds")
data("Daily_Cov")
data("siteCov")

#Model the abundance for  5 bird species and calculate alpha diversity from that

BirdDiversity <-diversityoccu(pres = IslandBirds, sitecov = siteCov,
obscov = Daily_Cov,spp =  5, form = ~ Day + Wind + Time + Rain +
Noise ~ Elev + AgroFo + SecVec + Wetland + Upland)

#To see the estimates and p values for each model:

BirdDiversity$models

## End(Not run)

DiversityOccupancy documentation built on May 2, 2019, 12:35 p.m.