Hi, I have a small simple data frame (attached) - to compare diversity of insects encountered in disturbed and unditurbed site. What i have is the count of insects - the total number of times they were encountered over 30 monitoring slots. Can someone please check for me to make sure how the 'community data matrix' for the diversity function needs to be oriented so that i'm comparing the right sets. I know that community data matrices mustn't carry characters that aren't numbers. I replaced my sps. names sp1, sp2, sp3, etc., with just 1, 2, 3.... but not sure what I can replace 'dist' and 'undist' with! I try this to start with -- insects.div<-diversity(insects, index="shannon") > insects.div [1] 0.7242788 0.7485246 0.7298712 0.9012085 1.0366280 0.9470281 1.0466542 [8] 1.0133127 0.6450332 & thats not what i want. Any advice on the matrix format or commands would be big help! Cheers, Manju V. Sharma Gardenwood East 3.1, Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus Ascot SL5 7PY UK Tel (O): 0044 207 5942360 (R): 0044 207 8520808
habitat dist undist 1 56 73 2 86 75 3 0 33 4 0 21 5 0 4 6 20 29 7 13 16 8 24 18 9 0 17
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