beta.multi.abund: Abundance-based multiple-site dissimilarities
In betapart: Partitioning Beta Diversity into Turnover and Nestedness Components

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Computes 3 multiple-site dissimilarities accounting for the (i) balanced variation and (ii) abundance gradient components of dissimilarity, and the sum of both values (i.e. total abundance-based dissimilarity)

1	beta.multi.abund(x, index.family="bray")

`x`	data frame, where rows are sites and columns are species. Alternatively `x` can be a `betapart.abund` object derived from the `betapart.core.abund` function
`index.family`	family of dissimilarity indices, partial match of `"bray"` or `"ruzicka"`.

The function returns a list with the three multiple site dissimilarity values.

For index.family="bray" the three indices are:

`beta.BRAY.BAL`	value of the balanced variation component of Bray-Curtis multiple-site dissimilarity
`beta.BRAY.GRA`	value of the abundance-gradient component of Bray-Curtis multiple-site dissimilarity
`beta.BRAY`	value of the overall dissimilarity, measured as Bray-Curtis multiple-site dissimilarity

For index.family="ruzicka" the three indices are:

`beta.RUZ.BAL`	value of the balanced variation component of Ruzicka multiple-site dissimilarity
`beta.RUZ.GRA`	value of the abundance-gradient component of Ruzicka multiple-site dissimilarity
`beta.RUZ`	value of the overall dissimilarity, measured as Ruzicka multiple-site dissimilarity

Andrés Baselga

Baselga, A. 2017. Partitioning abundance-based multiple-site dissimilarity into components: balanced variation in abundance and abundance gradients. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8: 799-808

beta.pair.abund, beta.sample.abund, betapart.core.abund, beta.multi

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require(vegan)
data(BCI)
beta.multi.abund(BCI, index.family="bray")

Loading required package: vegan
Loading required package: permute
Loading required package: lattice
This is vegan 2.4-4
$beta.BRAY.BAL
[1] 0.9167315

$beta.BRAY.GRA
[1] 0.008632995

$beta.BRAY
[1] 0.9253645