Based on (but not identical to) the no-longer-maintained package 'phyext', provides enhancements to 'phylobase' classes, specifically for use by package 'SigTree'; provides classes and methods which help users manipulate branch-annotated trees (as in 'SigTree'); also provides support for a few other extra features.

The spatial interpolation of genetic distances between
	     samples is based on a modified kriging method that
	     accepts a genetic distance matrix and generates a map of
	     probability of lineage presence. This package also offers
	     tools to generate a map of  potential contact zones
	     between groups with user-defined thresholds in the tree
	     to account for old and recent divergence. Additionally,
	     it has functions for IDW interpolation using genetic data
	     and midpoints.

Provides a base S4 class for comparative methods, incorporating
    one or more trees and trait data.

Create and customize interactive phylogenetic trees using the 'phylocanvas' JavaScript library and the 'htmlwidgets' package. These trees can be used directly from the R console, from 'RStudio', in Shiny apps, and in R Markdown documents.  See <http://phylocanvas.org/>  for more information on the 'phylocanvas' library.

Implements some methods in phyloclimatic modeling: 
  estimation of ancestral climatic niches, age-range-correlation, 
  niche equivalency test and background-similarity test.

Interface to 'Phylocom' (<https://phylodiversity.net/phylocom/>),
    a library for analysis of 'phylogenetic' community structure and
    character evolution. Includes low level methods for interacting with
    the three executables, as well as higher level interfaces for methods
    like 'aot', 'ecovolve', 'bladj', 'phylomatic', and more.

Implementation of the automatic shift detection method for
    Brownian Motion (BM) or Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) models of trait evolution on
    phylogenies. Some tools to handle equivalent shifts configurations are also
    available. See Bastide et al. (2017) <doi:10.1111/rssb.12206> and
    Bastide et al. (2018) <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy005>.