SYNCSA--R tool for analysis of metacommunities based on functional traits and phylogeny of the community components.
CONCLUSIONS
SYNCSA is an R package for the analysis of metacommunities based on functional traits and phylogeny of the community components. It offers tools to calculate several matrix correlations that express trait-convergence assembly patterns, trait-divergence assembly patterns and phylogenetic signal in functional traits at the species pool level and at the metacommunity level.


METHODS
SYNCSA is a package for the R environment, under a GPL-2 open-source license and freely available on CRAN official web server for R (http://cran.r-project.org).


BACKGROUND
vanderleidebastiani@yahoo.com.br.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil. vanderleidebastiani@yahoo.com.br
Vanderlei J
VJ
Debastiani
Valério D
VD
Pillar
D058448:Biota; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software