spatialEco (version 2.0-2)

overlap: Niche overlap (Warren's-I)

Description

Similarity Statistic for Quantifying Niche Overlap using Warren's-I

Usage

overlap(x, y)

Value

A vector (single value) representing the I similarity statistic

Arguments

x

A matrix or SpatRaster raster class object

y

A matrix or SpatRaster raster class object with the same dimensions of x

Author

Jeffrey Evans <[e-mail]> and Jeremy VanDerWal

Details

The overlap function computes the I similarity statistic (Warren et al. 2008) of two overlapping niche estimates. Similarity is based on the Hellenger distance. It is assumed that the input data share the same extent and cellsize and all values are positive.

The I similarity statistic sums the pair-wise differences between two predictions to create a single value representing the similarity of the two distributions. The I similarity statistic ranges from a value of 0, where two distributions have no overlap, to 1 where two distributions are identical (Warren et al., 2008). The function is based on code from Jeremy VanDerWal

References

Warren, D. L., R. E. Glor, M. Turelli, and D. Funk. (2008). Environmental Niche Equivalency versus Conservatism: Quantitative Approaches to Niche Evolution. Evolution 62:2868-2883.

Examples

  
# add degree of separation in two matrices 
p1 <- abs(matrix(1:50,nr=50,nc=50) + 
         runif(n = 2500, min = -1, max = 1))
p2 <- abs(matrix(1:50,nr=50,nc=50) + 
         rnorm(n = 2500, mean = 1, sd = 1))
 
# High overlap/similarity 
( I <- overlap(p1,p2) )