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title: 'PNC: Evaluating Phylogeny as a Proxy for Ecological Similarity'
version: 0.2.0
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.PNC
abstract: Provides a trait-based workflow for evaluating whether phylogenetic relatedness
  is informative about similarity in measured quantitative traits within focal species
  pools and across multiple communities. Functions support trait data integration,
  taxon-specific trait extraction, coverage assessment, optional principal component
  analysis, and estimation of phylogenetic signal using Pagel's lambda or Blomberg's
  K. Curated quantitative trait datasets are included for plants, birds, mammals,
  reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. Paired simulations assess how observed patterns
  of missing trait data affect Pagel's lambda estimates and significance classifications
  for individual traits. Methods for quantifying phylogenetic signal are based on
  Pagel (1999) <https://doi.org/10.1038/44766>, Blomberg et al. (2003) <https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00285.x>,
  and Münkemüller et al. (2012) <https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00196.x>.
authors:
- family-names: He
  given-names: Yan
  email: heyaneco@163.com
- family-names: Xia
  given-names: Yu
- family-names: Yang
  given-names: Rui
- family-names: Mao
  given-names: Lingfeng
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
commit: 0b9df002a3ada6f557b55ea338c0fd1ba91105c2
date-released: '2026-08-29'
contact:
- family-names: He
  given-names: Yan
  email: heyaneco@163.com