Acknowledgment

This package includes translations 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 translations and adaptations of functions that are provided by the scripts of these papers:

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

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