gen.spp: Generate species

In akeyel/spatialdemography: A Spatially Explicit Metacommunity Model

Description

This function generates species based on the instructions given in two input files.

Usage

gen.spp(sp.base.file, sp.resp.instr.file, sp.out.file, tot.sp.num)

Arguments

sp.base.file	An input file containing base vital rates. See Appendix S1 (ODD protocol) for file setup & details
sp.resp.instr.file	A file containing details on the species response traits, and how they should be distributed. Currently these are independent of the underlying base vital rates.
sp.out.file	The species file to be created
tot.sp.num	The total number of species to be generated

Details

sp.base.file contains the base vital rates and how they should be distributed in the regional species pool, while resp.traits contains information on species response traits. This creates a regional species pool that contains a realization of a defined distribution of base vital rates and response traits.

Note

Currently does not support creation of constrained species traits, although the intention is to add that functionality in future versions. WARNING There appears to be a bug in R (3.1.0) that is affecting the way some column headers are being displayed during troubleshooting. (this will not affect function users and only matters for those modifying the functions)

akeyel/spatialdemography documentation built on May 12, 2019, 4:43 a.m.