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ecospat.niche.overlap

Calculate Niche Overlap

Description

Calculate the overlap metrics D and I based on two species occurrence density grids z1 and z2 created by ecospat.grid.clim.

Usage

ecospat.niche.overlap (z1, z2, cor)

Arguments

`z1`	Species 1 occurrence density grid created by `ecospat.grid.clim`.
`z2`	Species 2 occurrence density grid created by `ecospat.grid.clim`.
`cor`	Correct the occurrence densities of each species by the prevalence of the environments in their range (TRUE = yes, FALSE = no).

Details

if cor=FALSE, the z$uncor objects created by ecospat.grid.clim are used to calculate the overlap. if cor=TRUE, the z$cor objects are used.

If you encounter a problem during your analyses, please first read the FAQ section of "Niche overlap" in http://www.unil.ch/ecospat/home/menuguid/ecospat-resources/tools.html

Value

Overlap values D and I. D is Schoener's overlap metric (Schoener 1970). I is a modified Hellinger metric(Warren et al. 2008)

Author(s)

Olivier Broennimann olivier.broennimann@unil.ch

References

Broennimann, O., M.C. Fitzpatrick, P.B. Pearman, B. Petitpierre, L. Pellissier, N.G. Yoccoz, W. Thuiller, M.J. Fortin, C. Randin, N.E. Zimmermann, C.H. Graham and A. Guisan. 2012. Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21, 481-497.

Schoener, T.W. 1968. Anolis lizards of Bimini: resource partitioning in a complex fauna. Ecology, 49, 704-726.

Warren, D.L., R.E. Glor and M. Turelli. 2008. Environmental niche equivalency versus conservatism: quantitative approaches to niche evolution. Evolution, 62, 2868-2883.

Olivier Broennimann [cre, aut, ctb], Valeria Di Cola [aut, ctb], Blaise Petitpierre [ctb], Frank Breiner [ctb], Daniel Scherrer [ctb], Manuela D`Amen [ctb], Christophe Randin [ctb], Robin Engler [ctb], Wim Hordijk [ctb], Heidi Mod [ctb], Julien Pottier [ctb], Mirko Di Febbraro [ctb], Loic Pellissier [ctb], Dorothea Pio [ctb], Ruben Garcia Mateo [ctb], Anne Dubuis [ctb], Luigi Maiorano [ctb], Achilleas Psomas [ctb], Charlotte Ndiribe [ctb], Nicolas Salamin [ctb], Niklaus Zimmermann [ctb], Antoine Guisan [aut]

Initial release

2021-02-17