species.ed: Calculate Evolutionary distinctiveness for each species

In phyloraster: Evolutionary Diversity Metrics for Raster Data

Calculate Evolutionary distinctiveness for each species

Description

This function calculates evolutionary distinctiveness according to the fair-proportion index for each species.

Usage

species.ed(tree)

Arguments

tree	phylo. A dated tree.

Value

data.frame

Author(s)

Neander Marcel Heming and Gabriela Alves-Ferreira

References

Isaac, N. J., Turvey, S. T., Collen, B., Waterman, C. and Baillie, J. E. (2007). Mammals on the EDGE: conservation priorities based on threat and phylogeny. PLoS ONE 2, e296.

Examples

library(phyloraster)
tree <- ape::read.tree(system.file("extdata", "tree.nex",
package="phyloraster"))
plot(tree)
ed <- species.ed(tree)
ed

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