codyn: An R package for analysis of long-term ecological community data

As long-term datasets increase in scope and length, new analytical tools are developing to capture patterns of species interactions over time. We present a new R package, codyn, to help ecologists easily implement these metrics and gain broader insight into community dynamics. codyn functions are explicitly temporal and include metrics of community stability and species turnover; they can also be implemented over multiple spatial replicates. In addition, codyn contains vignettes which reproduce figures and methods from published papers.