Calculates similarity-sensitive raw metacommunity beta diversity (the average distinctiveness of subcommunities). This measure may be calculated for a series of orders, represented as a vector of qs.

raw_meta_beta(meta, qs)

Arguments

meta

object of class metacommunity

qs

vector of mode numeric containing q values

Value

raw_meta_beta 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 raw metacommunity beta diversity
raw_meta_beta(meta, 0:2)
#>    measure q type_level type_name partition_level partition_name diversity
#> 1 raw beta 0      types             metacommunity                0.5555556
#> 2 raw beta 1      types             metacommunity                0.5455618
#> 3 raw beta 2      types             metacommunity                0.5380435
#>   dat_id transformation normalised  k max_d
#> 1  naive             NA         NA NA    NA
#> 2  naive             NA         NA NA    NA
#> 3  naive             NA         NA NA    NA