Get the names of species belonging to a specific Functional Entity (FE)

Usage

search.sp.nm(sp_to_fe, nm_fe)

Arguments

sp_to_fe: a list which is the output of the mFD::sp.to.fe() function
nm_fe: a character string referring to the name of the FE to study

Value

a vector containing the names of the species belonging to the studied FE.

Author

Camille Magneville

Examples

# Load species traits data:
 data("fruits_traits", package = "mFD")

# Transform species traits data:
# Only keep the first 4 traits to illustrate FEs:
 fruits_traits <- fruits_traits[ , c(1:4)]   

# Load trait types data:
 data("fruits_traits_cat", package = "mFD")

# Transform the trait types data to only keep traits 1 - 4:
 fruits_traits_cat <- fruits_traits_cat[c(1:4), ]
 
 # Load Assemblages*Species matrix:
data('baskets_fruits_weights', package = 'mFD')

# Gather species into FEs:
## gathering species into FEs (FEs named according to the decreasing...
## ...  number of species they gather):
 sp_FEs_fruits <- mFD::sp.to.fe(
      sp_tr      = fruits_traits, 
      tr_cat     = fruits_traits_cat, 
      fe_nm_type = "fe_rank")
      
# Look for te names of the species belonging to the FE called "fe_3":
mFD::search.sp.nm(sp_to_fe = sp_FEs_fruits,
                 nm_fe = "fe_3")
#> [1] "blackberry" "raspberry"