Calculates similarity-sensitive normalised subcommunity alpha diversity (the diversity of subcommunity j in isolation. This measure may be calculated for a series of orders, represented as a vector of qs.

norm_sub_alpha(meta, qs)

Arguments

meta

object of class metacommunity

qs

vector of mode numeric containing q values

Value

norm_sub_alpha returns a standard output of class rdiv

References

R. Reeve, T. Leinster, C. Cobbold, J. Thompson, N. Brummitt, S. Mitchell, and L. Matthews. 2016. How to partition diversity. arXiv 1404.6520v3:1–9.

Examples

pop <- data.frame(a = c(1,3), b = c(1,1))
row.names(pop) <- paste0("sp", 1:2)
pop <- pop/sum(pop)
meta <- metacommunity(pop)

# Calculate normalised subcommunity alpha diversity
norm_sub_alpha(meta, 0:2)
#>            measure q type_level type_name partition_level partition_name
#> 1 normalised alpha 0      types              subcommunity              a
#> 2 normalised alpha 0      types              subcommunity              b
#> 3 normalised alpha 1      types              subcommunity              a
#> 4 normalised alpha 1      types              subcommunity              b
#> 5 normalised alpha 2      types              subcommunity              a
#> 6 normalised alpha 2      types              subcommunity              b
#>   diversity dat_id transformation normalised  k max_d
#> 1  2.000000  naive             NA         NA NA    NA
#> 2  2.000000  naive             NA         NA NA    NA
#> 3  1.754765  naive             NA         NA NA    NA
#> 4  2.000000  naive             NA         NA NA    NA
#> 5  1.600000  naive             NA         NA NA    NA
#> 6  2.000000  naive             NA         NA NA    NA