01811nas a2200217 4500008004100000245005400041210005300095300001600148490000600164520117700170100001801347700001601365700002201381700001601403700001801419700001901437700001801456700001401474700002401488856008101512 2016 eng d00acodyn: An R package of community dynamics metrics0 acodyn An R package of community dynamics metrics a1146–11510 v73 a
  1. New analytical tools applied to long-term data demonstrate that ecological communities are highly dynamic over time. We developed an r package, library(“codyn”), to help ecologists easily implement these metrics and gain broader insights into ecological community dynamics.
  2. library(“codyn”) provides temporal diversity indices and community stability metrics. All functions are designed to be easily implemented over multiple replicates.
  3. Temporal diversity indices include species turnover, mean rank shifts and rate of community change over time. Community stability metrics calculate overall stability and patterns of species covariance and synchrony over time, and include a null-modelling method to test significance.
  4. Finally, library(“codyn”) contains vignettes that describe methods and reproduce figures from published papers to help users contextualize and apply functions to their own data.
1 aHallett, L.M.1 aJones, S.K.1 aMacDonald, A.A.M.1 aJones, M.B.1 aFlynn, D.F.B.1 aRipplinger, J.1 aSlaughter, P.1 aGries, C.1 aCollins, Scott., L. uhttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.12569