calc_quantitative_connectance: Calculates the quantitative connectance, and the effective...

In lsaravia/EcoNetwork: Ecological network analyses including multiplex networks

Calculates the quantitative connectance, and the effective number of flows using the interaction matrix and a vector of species abundances

Description

The Quantitative connectance (Cq) takes into account both the distribution of per capita interaction strengths among species in the web and the distribution of species’ abundances and quantifies the diversity of network fluxes, if all the species have the same flux is equal to the directed connectance. The mean or effective number of flows impinging upon or emanating from a tipical node (LDq) is based the average flow diversity, and when all flows are equal is similar to linkage density. Both measures are based in Shannon information theory. The total interaction flux is measured as T[i,j] <- d[i] * d[j] * interM[i,j]. The effective Cq is calculated following the formulas in appendix 2 of 1, LDq follows 2

Usage

calc_quantitative_connectance(interM, d)

Arguments

interM	per capita interaction strength matrix
d	species' abundances vector

Value

A list with Cq,the quantitative connectance index and LDq, =

References

1. Fahimipour, A.K. & Hein, A.M. (2014). The dynamics of assembling food webs. Ecol. Lett., 17, 606–613

2. Ulanowicz, R.E. & Wolff, W.F. (1991). Ecosystem flow networks: Loaded dice? Math. Biosci., 103, 45–68

Examples

# 3 predators 2 preys unequal fluxes
#
m <- matrix()
matrix(0,nrow=4,ncol=4)
m[1,2] <- m[1,3] <- m[3,4]<- .2
m[2,1] <- m[3,1] <- m[4,3] <- -2

calc_quantitative_connectance(m, c(1,1,1,1))

# Equal input and output fluxes

m <- matrix(0,nrow=4,ncol=4)
m[1,2] <- m[1,3] <- m[3,4]<- 2
m[2,1] <- m[3,1] <- m[4,3] <- -2
calc_quantitative_connectance(m, c(1,1,1,1))

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