The functions for calculating beta-diversity indexes have
undergone changes in their arguments. Previously, they required a list
containing each focal assemblage along with their respective adjacent
cells separately, filled in the asb argument. Now, for
simplicity, these functions need to be filled with a species
presence-absence matrix (i.e., sites in rows and species in columns) in
the mat argument and an adjacency matrix containing the
focal assemblages and their respective adjacent cells in the
adj argument, being the asb argument
removed.
The internal object pass_asb has been removed. This
object previously contained a list of where each object had a matrix of
a focal cell and its adjacent neighborhoods for Australian
passeriformes. A spatial adjacency matrix of the Australian grid
assemblages has been added and stored within the AU_adj
internal object.
The argument criteria in cutting functions has been
changed to its singular form, criterion.