allStability: Calculates all Stability and Resistance indicators

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

View source: R/allStability.R

Description

This function calculates all (or a subset) of the Stability and Resistance indicators for j areas and i years. The user can choose whether the function returns the indicator dataframe to the global environment, exports the dataframe to a .csv file, or both. The user can also choose whether the function returns the raw indicator values, the standardized (z-score) values, or both.

Usage

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allStability(X, land, maxlength.group, species.table, speciesinfo.table,
  TL.grouping = 1, wind = 5, negative = FALSE, years, raw = TRUE,
  std = TRUE, glob.env = TRUE, export.path = NULL,
  export.id = NULL)

Arguments

X

A dataframe of fishery independent data derived from research vessel survey data or model output, with columns YEAR, ID, SPECIES, BIOMASS, and ABUNDANCE. YEAR indicates the year the observation was recorded, ID is an area code indicating where the observation was recorded, SPECIES is a numeric code indicating the species sampled, and BIOMASS/ABUNDANCE is the corresponding biomass/abundance (stratified and corrected for catchability as required).

land

A dataframe of commercial landings data with columns YEAR, ID, SPECIES and CATCH. YEAR indicates the year the landing was recorded, ID is an area code indicating where the landing was recorded, SPECIES is a numeric code indicating the species landed, and CATCH is the corresponding landed weight.

maxlength.group

A character string indicating the species group for which to calculate the mean maximum length of fish in the community. Must be set to "ALL" or match a column name in species.table. If maxlength.group = NULL, the mean maximum length will not be calculated.

species.table

A table where the column names match the entries in resource.groups, ratio.groups, and/or condition.groups. Column entries are the species codes indicating the species from X (or X_length) included in each group. species.table may also include columns for other species groups; these will be ignored.

speciesinfo.table

A table with columns SPECIES and the corresponding TL, MAXLENGTH, MAXAGE, and IVI (trophic level, maximum recorded age, maximum recorded length, and intrinsic vulnerability index). Entries in the SPECIES column should be the unique values of species codes in X (or a subset thereof). If there are different species codes in X and land, the Intrinsic Vulnerability Index of the Landings indicator should be calculated separately using the function IVILandings().

TL.grouping

Size of the trophic level bin for which to aggregate biomass when calculating Biomass per Trophic Level. For example, if TL.grouping = 1, trophic levels are binned from 1.00 - 1.99, 2.00 - 2.99, etc. If TL.grouping = 0.5, trophic levels are binned from 1.00 - 1.49, 1.50 - 1.99, 2.00 - 2.49, 2.50 - 2.99, etc. Default is TL.grouping = 1 so that biomass is aggregated over discrete trophic levels.

wind

Window for the moving average used to calculate the Coefficient of Variation of the Biomass. The first and last floor(wind/2) values of the indicator are assigned NA to account for the moving average. Default is wind = 5 years.

negative

If negative = TRUE, the Coefficient of Variation of the Biomass will be multiplied by -1 so that the expected response is to decrease with increasing fishing pressure. Default is negative = FALSE.

years

A vector of years for which to calculate indicators.

raw

A logical value. If raw = TRUE, the raw indicator values are returned by the function. If raw = FALSE, the raw indicator values are not returned. Default is raw = TRUE. Either raw or std must be TRUE.

std

A logical value. If std = TRUE, the standardized indicator values for each area ID are returned by the function. Indicators are standardized using z-scores, i.e., by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation (ignoring NA values). If std = FALSE, the standardized indicator values are not returned. Default is std = TRUE. Either raw or std must be TRUE.

glob.env

Logical value indicating whether to return output to global environment. Default is glob.env = TRUE.

export.path

File path indicating where to save a .csv file of calculated indicators (named stability_export.id.csv; see below). If export.file = NULL, the indicator dataframe will not be exported as a .csv file. Default is export.path = NULL.

export.id

Character string to modify the name of the .csv file (if export.path is specified), for example an area name or date of analysis. The exported .csv file is named stability_export.id.csv. Default is export.id = NULL.

Details

This function calculates the Stability and Resistance indicators: Biomass per Trophic Level, Intrinsic Vulnerability Index, Coefficient of Variation of the Biomass, Mean Lifespan, and Mean Maximum Length (weighted by biomass and abundance). If data are not available to calculate one or more of these indicators, a subset will be returned. See the help file for the individual functions for information on how each indicator is calculated.

Notes on indicator calculations: In the individual functions, the user generally has control over which metric (e.g., BIOMASS or ABUNDANCE) is used to calculate the indicator. Here, BIOMASS is used to calculate Coefficient of Variation of the Biomass, Mean Lifespan, Biomass per Trophic Level, and Mean Maximum Length weighted by biomass. ABUNDANCE is used to calculate Mean Maximum Length weighted by abundance. See individual functions for more flexibility.

Value

Returns a dataframe with columns ID, YEAR, and indicators corresponding to the arguments supplied to the function. Standardized indicators are noted with _s in the name.

Author(s)

Danielle Dempsey Danielle.Dempsey@dfo-mpo.gc.ca, Adam Cook, Catalina Gomez, Alida Bundy

References

Bundy A, Gomez C, Cook AM. 2017. Guidance framework for the selection and evaluation of ecological indicators. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3232: xii + 212 p.

See Also

Other stability and resistance indicators: CVBiomass, IVILandings, biomassPerTL, meanMaxAge, meanMaxLength

Examples

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# Compile data
data(X)
data(land)
data(species.info)
data(species.table)

# Calculate raw and standardized indicators
allStability(X = X, land = land, maxlength.group = "FINFISH",
   species.table = species.table, speciesinfo.table = species.info,TL.grouping = 1,
   wind = 5, negative = FALSE, years = c(2014:2019), raw = TRUE, std = TRUE)

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