title: Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Picante is a software package that provides a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing the phylogenetic and trait diversity of ecological communities. The package calculates phylogenetic diversity metrics, performs trait comparative analyses, manipulates phenotypic and phylogenetic data, and performs tests for phylogenetic signal in trait distributions, community structure and species interactions.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Picante is a package for the R statistical language and environment written in R and C, released under a GPL v2 open-source license, and freely available on the web (http://picante.r-forge.r-project.org) and from CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org).
authors.affiliation: Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
authors.forename: Steven W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Kembel
authors.forename: Peter D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Cowan
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Helmus
authors.forename: William K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Cornwell
authors.forename: Helene
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Morlon
authors.forename: David D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Ackerly
authors.forename: Simon P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Blomberg
authors.forename: Campbell O
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: Webb
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D004463:Ecology; D010641:Phenotype; D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software