matrix or data.frame, community data matrix, rownames are sample names, colnames are OTU ids.
pd
matrix, pairwise phylogenetic distance matrix.
abundance.weighted
logic, whether weighted by species abundance, default is TRUE, means weighted.
check.name
logic, whether to check the OTU ids (species names) in community matrix and phylogenetic distance matrix are the same.
memory.G
numeric, to set the memory size as you need, so that calculation of large tree will not be limited by physical memory. unit is Gb. default is 50Gb
time.count
logic, whether to count calculation time, default is FALSE.
Value
result is a numeric vector with sample names
Details
mean nearest taxon distance (MNTD) in each community, using the same algrithm as the function 'mntd' in package 'picante'.
References
Webb CO, Ackerly DD, and Kembel SW. (2008). Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution. Bioinformatics 18:2098-2100
Kembel, S.W., Cowan, P.D., Helmus, M.R., Cornwell, W.K., Morlon, H., Ackerly, D.D. et al. (2010). Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology. Bioinformatics, 26, 1463-1464.