Combine functional and phylogenetic distances

Combines a functional and a phylogenetic dissimilarity into one, as sqrt(w * F^2 + (1 - w) * P^2) after scaling each to a maximum of 1 (the approach of Cadotte et al. 2013 and de Bello et al. 2017). Only species present in both are kept.

Usage

phylo_combine_dist(functional, phylogenetic, weight = 0.5)

Arguments

functional, phylogenetic

dist objects labelled by species.

weight

Weight w of the functional part, between 0 and 1.

Value

A dist object.

References

Cadotte, M. W. et al. (2013). The ecology of differences: assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances. Ecology Letters, 16, 1234-1244. doi:10.1111/ele.12161