whomineralizes: Direct and indirect contributions to mineralizations

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Direct and indirect contributions to mineralizations

Description

Direct and indirect contributions to mineralizations

Usage

whomineralizes(usin, selected = NULL)

Arguments

usin	The community in which we want to calculate mineralization rates.
selected	A vector of names for which you want to calculate the direct and indirect effects. Default NULL means all of them. Useful for excluding nodes whose removal breaks the community (i.e., basal nodes)

Details

The results are labeled as follows with direct contributions calculated from the full food web and indirect contributions calculated from the food web without that node. Indirect contributions do not include the direct contribution (i.e., it is subtracted).

DirectC

The direct contribution to carbon mineralization.

DirectN

The direct contribution to nitrogen mineralization.

IndirectC

The indirect contribution to carbon mineralization.

IndirectN

The indirect contribution to nitrogen mineralization.

The indirect contributions are calculated as the total mineralization of the community with the trophic species minus the trophic species direct mineralization minus the total mineralization without the trophic species all divided by the total mineralizaiton with the trophic species.

Value

A table of node effects on mineralization rates.

Examples

# Basic example for the introductory community:
whomineralizes(intro_comm)

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