Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology.
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).
Kembel
Steven W
SW
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Cowan
Peter D
PD
Helmus
Matthew R
MR
Cornwell
William K
WK
Morlon
Helene
H
Ackerly
David D
DD
Blomberg
Simon P
SP
Webb
Campbell O
CO
D044822:Biodiversity; D004463:Ecology; D010641:Phenotype; D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software