niche.overlap: Niche overlap between each pair of species

In spaa: SPecies Association Analysis

Niche overlap between each pair of species

Description

Compute niche overlap between each pair of species.

Usage

niche.overlap(mat, method = c("levins", "schoener",
       "petraitis", "pianka", "czech", "morisita"))

Arguments

mat	A community matrix with columns representing species, and rows representing plots.
method	A string specifying the name of the index.

Details

To add.

Value

A distance matrix contains niche overlap index between each pair of species.

Author(s)

Jinlong Zhang [e-mail]

References

Zhang Jin-tun,(2004 ) Quantitative Ecology, Science Press, Beijing

Nicholas J. Gotelli. 2000. Null model analysis of species co-occurrence patterns. Ecology 81:2606-2621. http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E081/022/EcoSim

See Also

niche.overlap.pair

Examples

data(datasample)
niche.overlap(datasample, method = "levins")

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