Consumer Absence Generates Ecological Dissimilarity (CAGED)

CAGED: A cross-ecosystem synthesis exploring the consequences of consumer loss on community variability

Principal Investigators:

• Jamie McDevitt-Irwin
• Kelly Speare
• Sally Koerner

Script Explanations

Briefly describe the purpose of each script (or folder of scripts) here as you create them!

• 01_harmonize.R -- Accepts all raw data files (from "data" folder in Google Drive) and uses a column key method (see ?ltertools::harmonize) to combine them into a single, standardized data table
  • Performs some minor wrangling necessary for coalescing synonymous columns / etc.
• 02_quality-control.R -- Performs more involved quality control (QC) and metric calculation
• 03_filter.R -- Filters out rows/columns that made sense to harmonize & tidy but are likely not useful for (the current) analysis
• 04_calc-beta.R -- Calculate beta dispersion at various spatial/temporal scales

Supplementary Resources

LTER Scientific Computing Team website & NCEAS' Resources for Working Groups

Google Drive