SYNCSA—R tool for analysis of metacommunities based on functional traits and phylogeny of the community components

SUMMARY: 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. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: 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). CONTACT: vanderleidebastiani@yahoo.com.br.