ade4 (version 1.7-8)

EH: Amount of Evolutionary History

Description

computes the sum of branch lengths on an ultrametric phylogenetic tree.

Usage

EH(phyl, select = NULL)

Arguments

phyl

an object of class phylog

select

a vector containing the numbers of the leaves (species) which must be considered in the computation of the amount of Evolutionary History. This parameter allows the calculation of the amount of Evolutionary History for a subset of species.

Value

returns a real value.

References

Nee, S. and May, R.M. (1997) Extinction and the loss of evolutionary history. Science, 278, 692--694.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(carni70)
carni70.phy <- newick2phylog(carni70$tre)
EH(carni70.phy)
EH(carni70.phy, select = 1:15) # Felidae
# }