Randomly reshuffles the relative abundance of types (e.g. species) in a metacommunity (whilst maintaining the relationship between the relative abundance of a particular species across subcommunities). In the case of a phylogenetic metacommunity, the relative abundance of terminal taxa are randomly reshuffled and the relative abundance of types (historical species) are calculated from the resulting partition.
repartition(meta, new_partition)object of class metacommunity.
two-dimensional matrix of mode numeric
with rows as types (species), columns as subcommunities, and each
element containing the relative abundance of types in each subcommunity
relative to the metacommunity as a whole. In the phylogenetic case, this
corresponds to the proportional abundance of terminal taxa. If this argument
is missing, all species / tips will be shuffled
repartition() returns an object of class metacommunity