Claddis-package {Claddis}

Measuring Morphological Diversity and Evolutionary Tempo

Description

Measures morphological diversity from discrete character data and estimates evolutionary tempo on phylogenetic trees.

Author(s)

Graeme T. Lloyd <[e-mail]>

References

Lloyd, G. T., 2016. Estimating morphological diversity and tempo with discrete character-taxon matrices: implementation, challenges, progress, and future directions. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 118, 131-151.

Examples

# Get morphological distances for Michaux (1989) data set:
distances <- calculate_morphological_distances(cladistic_matrix = michaux_1989)

# Show distances:
distances