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raretaxa

Identify Rare Taxa in a Data Set


Description

Identifies the distribution of rare taxa in a community data.frame, using a specified rareness threshold.

Usage

raretaxa(comm,min=1,log=FALSE,type='b', panel='all')

Arguments

comm

a community data.frame with samples as rows and species as columns

min

the minimum number of occurrences for a species to be considered rare

log

controls whether or not the Y axis on some graphs should be log scaled

type

the plot type. ‘b’ = both points and lines

panel

a switch to control which graphic is displayed. Can be either an integer from 1 to 3 or the word ‘all’.

Details

Rare species are an issue in ecological data sets. This function produces three graphs identifying (1) the distribution of rare species/plot, (2) the mean abundance (when present) of rare species, and (3) the total abundance or rare species/plot.

Value

Produces only graphs and returns no output

Author(s)

Examples

data(bryceveg)
raretaxa(bryceveg,min=3,log=TRUE)

labdsv

Ordination and Multivariate Analysis for Ecology

v2.0-1
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
David W. Roberts <droberts@montana.edu>
Initial release

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