The metacommunity abundances are sampled logseries randomly, without respect to the metacommunity phylogeny, which is maybe wierd. I implemented a couple different ways of simulating abundances on the tree in my PIED package, so this could be integrated into MESS to give more biologically meaningful metacommunity abundances.
The metacommunity abundances are sampled logseries randomly, without respect to the metacommunity phylogeny, which is maybe wierd. I implemented a couple different ways of simulating abundances on the tree in my PIED package, so this could be integrated into MESS to give more biologically meaningful metacommunity abundances.