Maximum Likelihood Models for Species Abundance Distributions R package sads version 0.6.5 Maximum likelihood tools to fit and compare models of species abundance distributions and of species rank-abundance distributions. Software Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), stats, stats4, bbmle (>= 1.0.19) Imports: MASS, methods, graphics, grDevices, VGAM, poilog, GUILDS, poweRlaw Suggests: vegan Paulo I. Prado <prado@ib.usp.br> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Paulo I. Prado [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7174-5005>), Murilo Dantas Miranda [aut], Andre Chalom [aut] GPL-2 2025-09-25 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sads doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.sads