Community Assembly by Traits: Individuals and Beyond

Detect and quantify community assembly processes using trait values of individuals or populations, the T-statistics and other metrics, and dedicated null models. Provides tools to analyse 'intraspecific' trait variability and its consequences for community assembly. Implements a framework using individual-level trait data to decompose variance at the population, species, and community levels. Methods are described in 'Taudiere' and 'Violle' (2016) .

cati: Communities Assembly by Traits: Individuals and beyond

A R package to detect communities assembly processes by functionnal traits

The package is described in Ecography: cati: an R package using functional traits to detect and quantify multi-level community assembly processes.

Install the latest versions of all dependencies from CRAN:

install.packages(c("devtools", "e1071", "mice", "rasterVis", "hypervolume", "cluster", "geometry", "vegan", "nlme", "ade4", "ape"))

Install cati's current development version from Github:

devtools::install_github("adrientaudiere/cati")

Install cati's cran version:

install.packages("cati")

Attach the package and you are ready to start:

library(cati)

There's a tutorial which illustrate the cati package using Darwin finches data.

How to cite?

"Taudiere, A. and Violle, C. (2016), cati: an R package using functional traits to detect and quantify multi-level community assembly processes. Ecography. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01433"