dendrosor: Sorensen dissimilarity index based on a dendrogram

Description Usage Arguments Value References

View source: R/sorensen.r

Description

Produces dissimilarity matrices using a species by species distance matrix; useful for example for functional diversity.

Usage

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dendrosor(comm, distmat, partition = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

comm

Community matrix giving sites (rows) by species (columns).

distmat

Distance matrix; margins must match exactly the columns in comm

partition

Logical; if true, the index will be partitioned into turnover and nestedness.

...

Additional arguments to pass to hclust.

Value

If partition == TRUE, list of three matrices giving the turnover, nestedness, and total components of dissimilarity. Otherwise, a matrix of pairwise dissimilarity values between communities.

References

Pavoine, S. and Ricotta, C. 2014. Functional and phylogenetic similarity among communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5(7): 666–675.


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