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Count Number of Species per Site

Source: R/fb_count_species_by_site.R
fb_count_species_by_site.Rd

For each site computes the proportion of species present (distribution value higher than 0 and non-NA) compared to all species provided. For example, a site could contain only 20% of all species provided.

Usage

fb_count_species_by_site(site_species)

Arguments

site_species

a data.frame with sites in rows and species in columns. NOTE: the first column should be named "site" and indicate site names. The other columns should be named according to species names.

Value

A three-column data.frame with:

  • site: the name of the site;

  • n_species: the number of present species;

  • coverage: the percentage of present species.

Examples

species_coverage_by_site <- fb_count_species_by_site(woodiv_site_species)
head(species_coverage_by_site)
#>       site n_species  coverage
#> 1 40552295        12 0.5000000
#> 2 39252405        12 0.5000000
#> 3 37752305        12 0.5000000
#> 4 39852255        12 0.5000000
#> 5 39152415        12 0.5000000
#> 6 39552415        11 0.4583333