Generate community data under the standard neutral model of biodiversity, using the urn scheme as described in Etienne 2005

This function generates community data under the standard neutral model of biodiversity, using the urn scheme as described in Etienne 2005

Usage

generate.ESF(theta, I, J)

Arguments

theta

Fundamental biodiversity number theta

I

Fundamental dispersal number I

J

total number of individuals in the local community

Value

Vector containing the unlabeled species abundances in the local community

References

Etienne, R.S. (2005). A new sampling formula for neutral biodiversity. Ecology Letters, 8(3), 253-260.

Author

Thijs Janzen & Bart Haegeman

Examples

  generate.ESF(theta = 42, I = 10, J = 2000)
#>  [1] 517 279 270 168 163 110  78  65  52  40  39  31  26  23  22  21  19  16  16
#> [20]  13  11  10   2   2   2   2   1   1   1