The Barro Colorado Island (BCI) dataset contains comprehensive ecological data from the 50-hectare forest dynamics plot on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. This dataset includes phylogenetic information and community composition data for tropical forest species.

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Provides functions for testing phylogenetic niche conservatism, a key prerequisite in community assembly studies. The package integrates global functional trait data across major taxonomic groups and implements methods such as Pagel's Lambda and Blomberg's K to quantify phylogenetic signals in ecological communities. Methods are described in Münkemüller et al. (2012) <doi:10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00196.x>.

Yan He

Phylogenetic Niche Conservatism Analysis for Ecological
Communities

Yu Xia

Rui Yang

Lingfeng Mao

BCI function

A list containing four main components:<dl>
 <dt>splist</dt>
<dd>A data frame with species information including species names, genus, and family classifications.</dd> <dt>phy_species</dt>
<dd>A phylogenetic tree representing species-level evolutionary relationships, rooted and including branch lengths.</dd> <dt>phy_genus</dt>
<dd>A phylogenetic tree with 183 tips and 174 internal nodes, rooted and including branch lengths.</dd> <dt>com</dt>
<dd>A community matrix showing species abundance across different sampling plots, with species counts for each location.</dd>
</dl>

Format

Barro Colorado Island (BCI) dataset — BCI

A list containing four main components:<dl>
 <dt>splist</dt>
<dd>A data frame with species information including species names, genus, and family classifications.</dd>

 <dt>phy_species</dt>
<dd>A phylogenetic tree representing species-level evolutionary relationships, rooted and including branch lengths.</dd>

 <dt>phy_genus</dt>
<dd>A phylogenetic tree with 183 tips and 174 internal nodes, rooted and including branch lengths.</dd>

 <dt>com</dt>
<dd>A community matrix showing species abundance across different sampling plots, with species counts for each location.</dd>


</dl>

BCI: Barro Colorado Island (BCI) dataset

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