c(person("Sara", "Varela", role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "svarela@paleobiogeography.org"),
person("Javier", "González Hernández", role = "aut",
email = "javier.gon@protonmail.com"),
person("Luciano", "Fabris Sgarbi", role = "aut",
email = "luciano.f.sgarbi@gmail.com"))

c(
person(given = "Bruno",
family = "do Rosario Petrucci",
role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "petrucci@iastate.edu",
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6334-8483")),
person(given = "Matheus",
family = "Januario",
role = "aut",
email = "januarioml.eco@gmail.com",
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6480-7095")),
person(given = "Tiago",
family = "Quental",
role = "aut",
email = "tbquental@usp.br",
comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4832-9468")))
Simulation of species diversification, fossil records, and phylogenies. While the literature on species birth-death simulators is extensive, including important software like 'paleotree' and 'APE', we concluded there were interesting gaps to be filled regarding possible diversification scenarios. Here we strove for flexibility over focus, implementing a large array of regimens for users to experiment with and combine. In this way, 'paleobuddy' can be used in complement to other simulators as a flexible jack of all trades, or, in the case of scenarios implemented only here, can allow for robust and easy simulations for novel situations. Environmental data modified from that in 'RPANDA': Morlon H. et al (2016) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12526>.
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci [aut, cre]
(<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6334-8483>),
Matheus Januario [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6480-7095>),
Tiago Quental [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4832-9468>)
Bruno do Rosario Petrucci <petrucci@iastate.edu>

paleofire: an R package to analyse sedimentary charcoal records
from the Global Charcoal Database to reconstruct past biomass
burning
The paleofire package provides tools to extract and analyse charcoal sedimentary data stored in the Global Charcoal Database. Main functionalities includes data extraction and sites selection, transformation and interpolation of the charcoal records as well as compositing.
locfit, gtools, caTools, pscl, Imap, RCurl, devtools