Analysis of Functional and Phylogenetic Patterns in Metacommunities R package SYNCSA version 1.3.5 Analysis of metacommunities based on functional traits and phylogeny of the community components. The functions that are offered here implement for the R environment methods that have been available in the 'SYNCSA' application written in C++ (by Valerio Pillar, available at <http://ecoqua.ecologia.ufrgs.br/SYNCSA.html>). Software Imports: vegan, FD, permute, RcppArmadillo, utils, stats, graphics, parallel Vanderlei Julio Debastiani <vanderleidebastiani@yahoo.com.br> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Vanderlei Julio Debastiani [aut, cre] GPL-2 2025-08-22 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=SYNCSA doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.SYNCSA