The functions for calculating beta-diversity indexes have undergone changes in their arguments. Previously, they required a list containing each focal assemblage along with their respective adjacent cells separately, filled in the asb
argument. Now, for simplicity, these functions need to be filled with a species presence-absence matrix (i.e., sites in rows and species in columns) in the mat
argument and an adjacency matrix containing the focal assemblages and their respective adjacent cells in the adj
argument, being the asb
argument removed.
The internal object pass_asb
has been removed. This object previously contained a list of where each object had a matrix of a focal cell and its adjacent neighborhoods for Australian passeriformes. A spatial adjacency matrix of the Australian grid assemblages has been added and stored within the AU_adj
internal object.
The argument criteria
in cutting functions has been changed to its singular form, criterion
.