To cite the FD package in publications please use:

Laliberté E, Legendre P (2010). “A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits.” Ecology, 91, 299–305.

Laliberté E, Legendre P, Shipley B (2014). FD: measuring functional diversity from multiple traits, and other tools for functional ecology. R package version 1.0-12.3.

See http://www.elaliberte.info/publications for a PDF version of the article.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {A distance-based framework for measuring functional
      diversity from multiple traits},
    author = {Etienne Laliberté and Pierre Legendre},
    journal = {Ecology},
    year = {2010},
    volume = {91},
    pages = {299--305},
  }

  @Manual{,
    title = {FD: measuring functional diversity from multiple traits,
      and other tools for functional ecology},
    author = {Etienne Laliberté and Pierre Legendre and Bill Shipley},
    year = {2014},
    note = {R package version 1.0-12.3},
  }