iCAMP:Infer Community Assembly Mechanisms by Phylogenetic-Bin-Based
Null Model Analysis
To implement a general framework to quantitatively infer Community Assembly Mechanisms by Phylogenetic-bin-based null
model analysis, abbreviated as 'iCAMP' (Ning et al 2020)
<doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18560-z>. It can quantitatively assess
the relative importance of different community assembly
processes, such as selection, dispersal, and drift, for both
communities and each phylogenetic group ('bin'). Each bin
usually consists of different taxa from a family or an order.
The package also provides functions to implement some other
published methods, including neutral taxa percentage (Burns et
al 2016) <doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.142> based on neutral theory
model and quantifying assembly processes based on
entire-community null models ('QPEN', Stegen et al 2013)
<doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.93>. It also includes some handy
functions, particularly for big datasets, such as phylogenetic
and taxonomic null model analysis at both community and bin
levels, between-taxa niche difference and phylogenetic distance
calculation, phylogenetic signal test within phylogenetic
groups, midpoint root of big trees, etc. Version 1.3.x mainly
improved the function for 'QPEN' and added function
'icamp.cate()' to summarize 'iCAMP' results for different
categories of taxa (e.g. core versus rare taxa).