Hi Everybody, I am wanting to analyze a number of food webs, derived from soil cores, for my dissertation work.
I have generated data that allows me to put together a soil food web and it includes 15 possible functional groups (vertices), (e.g., predatory nematodes, fungi eating mites, etc.). I also have a matrix derived that indicates interaction between the nodes (e.g., directed edges). I have derived biomass estimates for each of the functional groups in every single core that I took. I also took multiple cores in a given site in order to derive averages of biomass. Here is my challenge: I would like to look at the network properties that characterize each core. Then, I would like to quantify the 'average' network properties taken across multiple cores for a given site. Does anybody have a reccomendation on how to do this? I found the foodweb package that is available in R, but I am at a loss on how to set up my datafile. If you have any insight or words of wisdom, please email me at [email protected]. Thank you for reading this and I appreciate your help. Karl
