PlotRankNPS: Plot rank of node properties

Description

High-level functions for plotting value-versus-rank of node properties.

Usage

PlotRankNPS(community, 
            property, 
            rank.by=property, 
            log10.rank = FALSE, 
            xlab, 
            ylab, 
            show.web=FALSE, 
            ...)
PlotMvRankM(community, 
            log10.rank = FALSE, 
            xlab, 
            ylab, 
            ...)
PlotNvRankN(community, 
            log10.rank = FALSE, 
            xlab, 
            ylab, 
            ...)
PlotBvRankB(community, 
            log10.rank = FALSE, 
            xlab, 
            ylab, 
            ...)

Arguments

community: an object of class Community
property: the name of a property that is plotted on the y axis. Must meet the criteria of the properties parameter of NPS.
rank.by: the name of a property by which points are ordered along the x axis. Must meet the criteria of the properties parameter of NPS.
log10.rank: logical - if TRUE the rank values plotted on the x axis are log10-transformed.
xlab: title of the x axis.
ylab: title of the y axis.
show.web: logical - if TRUE and community has trophic links then the food web is plotted using the link* and highlight.links parameters
...: other values to PlotNPS.

Author

Lawrence Hudson

Details

The convenience functions PlotMvRankM, PlotNvRankN and PlotBvRankB are `wrappers' around PlotRankNPS that plot rank log10-transformed body mass (M), numerical abundance (N) or biomass (B).

Examples

Run this code

data(TL84)
PlotNvRankN(TL84)

# log10(N) against log10(rank of M)
PlotRankNPS(TL84, property='Log10N', rank.by='M', log10.rank=TRUE)


# The 'POM (detritus)' node in the Ythan Estuary dataset lacks body mass.
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
data(YthanEstuary)
PlotMvRankM(YthanEstuary)
PlotMvRankM(YthanEstuary, show.na=TRUE)