calc_interaction_intensity: Calculates the interaction intensity of a food web using the...

In lsaravia/EcoNetwork: Ecological network analyses including multiplex networks

Calculates the interaction intensity of a food web using the metabolic theory and the interaction dimensionality

Description

The function uses the body mass in Kg of predator/consumer and prey/resources and the dimensionality of the interaction as source data, then the interacion intensity is estimated with all the coeficients from 1 as alfa*xR*mR/mC, where alpha is the search rate xR the resource density, mR the resource body mass and mC the consumer body mass. If available the resource density is not known (parameter res_den) you must set the column to a less than 0 value; and it will be estimated according to the equation S18 and supplementary figures 2i & j (individuals/m2 - m3)

Usage

calc_interaction_intensity(da, res_mm, res_den, con_mm, int_dim, nsims = 1)

Arguments

da	data.frame with the interactions body mass and type of interaction dimensionality
res_mm	name of the column with the resource body mass mean
res_den	name of the column with the resource density in Individuals/m^2 in 2D or m^3 in 3D. If lower than 0 it uses the previously mentioned estimation.
con_mm	name of the column with the consumer body mass mean
int_dim	name of the column with the interaction dimensionality

Details

For detritus or sediment the resource mass mean is not known (parameter res_mm) it must be set as negative; and the resource body mass (kg) will be calculated using the equation S9 and supplementary figures 2c & d of the paper.

If the parameter 'nsims > 1 ' the function will estimate the variability on each interaction strength. It takes random values from a normal distribution with mean and standard deviation given by the Pawar's regressions for the slopes of allometric exponents.

Value

A data.frame based on da with the following fields added

• mR: if res_mm<0 is the resource mass calculated with the equations from ref 1, if res_mm>0 duplicates the value of res_mm

• xR: calculated resource density or the same value as in the input data.frame.

• alfa: calculated search rate.

• qRC: calculated trophic interaction strength as alfa*xR*mR/mC where mC is the consumer body mass.

References

1. Pawar, S., Dell, A. I., & Van M. Savage. (2012). Dimensionality of consumer search space drives trophic interaction strengths. Nature, 486, 485. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11131

Examples

## Not run: 
g <- netData[[1]]

require(dplyr)

# build the data.frame with random values

set.seed(7815)
da <- as_long_data_frame(g) %>% dplyr::select(from:to) %>% mutate(con_mm=rlnorm(n(),5,2),res_mm=con_mm - 30 ,int_dim=sample(c("2D","3D"),n(),replace=TRUE), res_den = -999)

calc_interaction_intensity(da,res_mm,res_den,con_mm,int_dim, nsims=1)

## End(Not run)

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