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
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
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-17 04:25:27 UTC; Usuario
Author: Rogelio R. Muñoz-Li [aut, cre],
  Flavia Alvarez-Denis [aut]
Maintainer: Rogelio R. Muñoz-Li <munozrogelio16@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-10-17 05:30:02 UTC
