untb (version 1.7-7-1)

untb-package: Unified neutral theory of biodiversity

Description

Numerical simulations, and visualizations, of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity

Author

Robin K. S. Hankin

Maintainer: <[e-mail]>

Details

Package untb uses two classes of object to represent an ecosystem: class count and class census. In essence, a count object is a table of species abundances and a census object is a list of individuals. See ?census and ?count for more details. Although objects of either class can be coerced to the other, class count is the preferred form: it is a more compact representation, especially for large ecosystems.

The package simulates neutral ecological drift using function untb(). Function display.untb() displays a semi-animated graphic of an ecosystem undergoing neutral drift.

References

• S. P. Hubbell 2001. “The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity”. Princeton University Press.

• R. K. S. Hankin 2007. Introducing untb, an R package for simulating ecological drift under the unified neutral theory of biodiversity. Journal of Statistical Software, volume 22, issue 12

Examples

a <- untb(start=rep(1,100),prob=0.005,gens=5000,keep=FALSE)
preston(a)
no.of.spp(a)

display.untb(start=rep(1,100),prob=0.1,gens=1000)

data(butterflies)
plot(butterflies,uncertainty=TRUE)