Phylogenetic Niche Conservatism Analysis for Ecological Communities
Test Robustness of Phylogenetic Niche Conservatism Analysis Across Mul...
Calculate Phylogenetic Niche Conservatism Across Multiple Communities
Calculate Trait Coverage Statistics
Extract Plant Traits from Trait Database
Merge Two Datasets Based on Species Column
Test Robustness of Phylogenetic Niche Conservatism Analysis
Analyze Phylogenetic Niche Conservatism in Ecological Communities
Simulate Trait Data with Target Phylogenetic Signal (Blomberg's K)
Simulate Trait Data with Target Phylogenetic Signal (Lambda)
Provides functions for testing phylogenetic niche conservatism, a key prerequisite in community assembly studies. The package integrates global functional trait data across major taxonomic groups and implements methods such as Pagel's Lambda and Blomberg's K to quantify phylogenetic signals in ecological communities. Methods are described in Münkemüller et al. (2012) <doi:10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00196.x>.