radius_plot: Plot the radius of curvature of the beta profiles for each...

In fabriziomaturo/BioFTF: Biodiversity Assessment Using Functional Tools

Description

This function provides a plot of the radius of curvature of the diversity profiles for the considered communities. The domain "beta" represents the sensibility to changes in the presence of rare species. The graph of the radius of curvature reflects the community composition; in particular, if we consider communities with different numbers of species, the radius of curvature is a good indicator of the lack of balance among species. This graph is alternative to the curvature. Low levels of radius of curvature highlights high imbalance among different species and vice-versa.

Usage

radius_plot(x,n)

Arguments

x

A data matrix with the abundance of the species (the rows are the communities and the columns indicate the species living in a community). The user can freely choose to use the absolute or relative frequencies.

n

The number of points of the domain [-1,1] that the user wants to consider in computing the functional tools. It is suggested to choose a number in the interval [3,10000] because a value of less than 3 has little sense; indeed, the major indices of biodiversity are the richness index, the index of Shannon and the index of Simpson (that we get for beta equal to -1, 0, +1, respectively). On the other hand, a value greater than 10000 is not very interesting because with a value of approximately 100 we already have a good approximation. The examples provided in this package always divide the domain into 20 intervals. The default value is n=20.

Author(s)

Fabrizio Maturo, Francesca Fortuna, Tonio Di Battista

Source

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING THROUGH FUNCTIONAL BIODIVERSITY TOOLS - T. Di Battista, F. Fortuna, F. Maturo - Ecological Indicators (2016) 60, 237-247 - online (2015). DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.05.056.

PARAMETRIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE FOR FISH BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT - T. Di Battista, F. Fortuna, F. Maturo - Journal of Environmental Informatics. Special issue of Marine and Freshwater Environmental Engineering and Management, Journal of Environmental Informatics. In press.

Examples

x=matrix(c(0.3,0.5,0.1,0.05,0.05,0.25,0.25,0.25,0.25,0,0.35,0.3,0.35,0,0),3,5)
radius_plot(x,20)

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