Acknowledgment

We are grateful to the authors of the pre-existing R package/implementation that we have implemented in MetaCommunityMetrics.jl. We express our gratitude to everyone who has tried out this package and provided feedback on how to improve it, especially people from the Entomological Data Science Lab at Cornell University.

This package includes re-implementation and adaptations of functions from the R packages adespatial (licensed under GPL-3), vegan (licensed under GPL-2 or later), DNCImper (licensed under GPL-3), and MVNH (licensed under GPL-3). The original packages and their documentation are available at:

• adespatial: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/adespatial/index.html
• vegan: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vegan/index.html
• DNCImper: https://github.com/Corentin-Gibert-Paleontology/DNCImper
• MVNH : https://github.com/lvmuyang/MVNH

This package also includes re-implementation and adaptations of functions that are provided by the scripts of these papers:

• Wang, S., Lamy, T., Hallett, L. M., & Loreau, M. (2019). Stability and synchrony across ecological hierarchies in heterogeneous metacommunities: linking theory to data. Ecography, 42(6), 1200-1211. https://doi.org:https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04290
• Guzman, L. M., Thompson, P. L., Viana, D. S., Vanschoenwinkel, B., Horvath, Z., Ptacnik, R., ... & Chase, J. M. (2022). Accounting for temporal change in multiple biodiversity patterns improves the inference of metacommunity processes. Ecology, 103(6), e3683. https://doi.org:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3683

Please refer to these sources for full details on the original implementations and licenses.