ecospat.mess: MESS

In ecospat: Spatial Ecology Miscellaneous Methods

MESS

Description

Calculate the MESS (i.e. extrapolation) as in Maxent.

Usage

ecospat.mess (proj, cal, w="default")

Arguments

proj	A dataframe object with x, y and environmental variables, used as projection dataset.
cal	A dataframe object with x, y and environmental variables, used as calibration dataset.
w	The weight for each predictor (e.g. variables importance in SDM).

Details

Shows the variable that drives the multivariate environmental similarity surface (MESS) value in each grid cell.

Value

MESS	The mess as calculated in Maxent, i.e. the minimal extrapolation values.
MESSw	The sum of negative MESS values corrected by the total number of predictors. If there are no negative values, MESSw is the mean MESS.
MESSneg	The number of predictors on which there is extrapolation.

Author(s)

Blaise Petitpierre [e-mail]. Modified by Daniel Scherrer [e-mail]

References

Elith, J., M. Kearney and S. Phillips. 2010. The art of modelling range-shifting species. Methods in ecology and evolution, 1, 330-342.

See Also

ecospat.plot.mess

Examples

x <- ecospat.testData[c(2,3,4:8)]
proj <- x[1:90,] #A projection dataset.
cal <- x[91:300,] #A calibration dataset

#Create a MESS object 
mess.object <- ecospat.mess (proj, cal, w="default")

#Plot MESS 
ecospat.plot.mess (mess.object, cex=1, pch=15)

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