Package: ascent
Title: Multi-Layer Decomposition of Functional Community Restructuring
Version: 0.5.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Rogelio R.", "Muñoz-Li", email = "munozrogelio16@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
    person("Flavia", "Alvarez-Denis", role = "aut")
    )
Description: Implements the 'ASC-CFD' (Assemblage Shift
        Characterization - Community Functional Dynamics) framework for
        decomposing functional community restructuring into positional
        (centroid displacement), dispersive (functional dispersion),
        and boundary (convex hull volume) components. Tests each
        component against two null models: a sampling null model
        (individuals or replicates reassigned between communities) and
        a stratified trait-permutation null model, with a single global
        test when many communities are compared. Functional entities
        (species with similar traits) help detect replacement among
        similar species, and species-level leverage identifies the taxa
        driving functional shifts. Supports both temporal (paired) and
        spatial (pairwise) comparisons.
Depends: R (>= 2.10)
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Imports: cluster, ggplot2, stats, utils, geometry, withr
Suggests: knitr, patchwork, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
URL: https://github.com/V3ndetta96/ascent
BugReports: https://github.com/V3ndetta96/ascent/issues
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Repository: https://v3ndetta96.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-10-16 03:45:29 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/v3ndetta96/ascent
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 48319b9de862f2608eeb035f5666fc716324d74f
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-16 08:17:25 UTC; root
Author: Rogelio R. Muñoz-Li [aut, cre],
  Flavia Alvarez-Denis [aut]
Maintainer: Rogelio R. Muñoz-Li <munozrogelio16@gmail.com>