DAISIE R package

The DAISIE R package is available on CRAN:

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DAISIE (Dynamic Assembly of Islands through Speciation, Immigration and Extinction) is a likelihood-based R package for estimating rates of colonisation, speciation and extinction from islands using phylogenetic data. The package also allows users to simulate islands and visualize the results of simulations under a variety of conditions.

Reference: Valente LM, Phillimore AB, Etienne RS. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics simultaneously operate in the Galápagos islands (2015) Ecology Letters, 18, 844-852.