Bill Shipley, C. E. Timothy Paine, and Christopher Baraloto. 2012. Quantifying the importance of local niche-based and stochastic processes to tropical tree community assembly. Ecology 93:760–769.

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R script and two R functions to implement the analyses described in our paper.
Ecological Archives E093-067-S1.

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Author(s)

Bill Shipley
Département de biologie
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke (Qc) J1K 2R1 Canada
E-mail: Bill.Shipley@USherbrooke.ca

C. E. Timothy Paine
Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Umweltwissenschaften
Universität Zürich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zürich, Switzerland
E-mail: timothy.paine@ieu.uzh.ch

Christopher Baraloto
INRA, UMR Écologie des Forêts de Guyane
97387 Kourou Cedex
French Guiana
E-mail: chris.baraloto@ecofog.gf

File list

R script: Shipley.script (md5: 3f49ef8fa2c8169aca9d9bc07a7c7bf9)

R function: maxent2 (md5: f4502d0134c1f7c0c59ef6b85e6235c9)

R function: maxenttest2 (md5: 33323061f78743cbb5fff8e254fc9e97)

Description

Shipley.script is a small R script that generated a small simulated data set consisting of six « species », one « trait » and a relative abundance distribution in the meta-community.  This script then calls “maxent2” and “maxenttest2” using different arguments and performs the decomposition described in the main paper.

maxent2 is a modified version of the maxent function of the FD library in R, as cited in the main paper; the FD library will eventually be updated and this maxent2 function will replace the original maxent function.

maxenttest2 is a modified version of the maxent.test function of the FD library in R, as cited in the main paper; the FD library will eventually be updated and this maxenttest2 function will replace the original maxent.test function.