Plot a nicheR Community of Ellipses — plot

Visualizes a nicheR_community object by plotting the background environmental space and the community of ellipses.

Usage

plot_community(
  object,
  background = NULL,
  dim = c(1, 2),
  bg_sample = NULL,
  lty = 1,
  lwd = 1,
  col_comm = NULL,
  col_bg = "#8A8A8A",
  pch = 1,
  alpha_bg = 1,
  alpha_comm = 1,
  cex_bg = 1,
  cex_comm = 1,
  ...
)

Arguments

object: A nicheR_community object generated by one of the community simulation functions (e.g., random_ellipses, nested_ellipses, conserved_ellipses).
background: Matrix or Dataframe. The environmental background points.
dim: Numeric vector of length 2. The indices of the variables to plot (default is c(1, 2)).
bg_sample: Integer. Number of background points to sample for plotting. The default, NULL, plots all background points.
lty, lwd: Numeric. Line type and width for community ellipses.
col_comm: Character vector. Colors for the community ellipses. Defaults to a rainbow palette.
col_bg: Character. Color for the background points.
pch: Integer or point character for background points.
alpha_bg, alpha_comm: Numeric. Transparency for background and ellipses.
cex_bg, cex_comm: Numeric. Character expansion for points/lines.
...: Additional arguments passed to the base plot function (e.g., xlim, ylim, xlab, ylab).