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spcmax

Species Maximum Standardization


Description

Standardizes a community data.frame by dividing the abundance of each species by the maximum value obtained for that species.

Usage

spcmax(comm)

Arguments

comm

community data.frame (samples as rows, species as columns)

Details

This is a simple standardization to make each species abundance scaled from 0 to 1, essentially relativizing abundance by species and making each species equal in the calculation of distance or dissimilarity or other analyses.

Value

A data.frame of standardized community data.

Author(s)

References

See Also

samptot, abundtrans, hellinger

Examples

data(bryceveg)
smveg <- spcmax(bryceveg)
apply(smveg,2,max)

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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