I used pitfall traps to collect ant on islands, thus, different size of islands contain different number of pitfall traps. Ants are really super-population, the abundance data based on individuals is unreliable.

I know the code dist.chao() in CommEcol package in R can be used to calculate the estimated taxonomic beta diversity that takes into account "rare" species. And it's can be done by using frequency data i.e., the number of pitfall traps that an ant species was caught in.

Now I have phylogenetic tree and functional traits of the ants I caught. I wonder how to calculate phylogenetic and functional estimated beta diversity also using the frequency data. I checked the BetaDiversity() function in entropart package. But it requires abundance data.

Anyone have an idea about that? Really appreciate!

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