Phylosignal: An R package to measure, test, and explore the phylogenetic signal

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2774-2780

  Keck, François ^a,b   Rimet, Frédéric ^a,b   Bouchez, Agnès ^a,b   Franc, Alain ^c  

^a UMR CARRTEL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Comparative analysis; Phylogenetic correlogram; Phylogenetic signal; R software; Trait evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962504104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2051     Document Type: Article

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