Marks the specified set of species as background species. Background species are handled differently in some plots and their abundance is automatically adjusted in addSpecies to keep the community close to the Sheldon spectrum.

markBackground(object, species)

Arguments

object

An object of class MizerParams or MizerSim.

species

Name or vector of names of the species to be designated as background species. By default this is set to all species.

...

Other arguments (unused)

Value

An object of the same class as the object argument

Examples

if (FALSE) { data(NS_species_params_gears) data(inter) params <- newMultispeciesParams(NS_species_params_gears, inter) sim <- project(params, effort=1, t_max=20, t_save = 0.2) sim <- markBackground(sim, species = c("Sprat", "Sandeel", "N.pout", "Dab", "Saithe")) plotSpectra(sim) }