Title: Tools for Ecological Niche Evolution Assessment Considering
person("Marlon E.", "Cobos", email = "manubio13@gmail.com", role = c("aut","cre")),
person("Hannah L.", "Owens", email = "hannah.owens@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
person("A. Townsend", "Peterson", email = "town@ku.edu", role = "aut"))
Maintainer: Marlon E. Cobos <manubio13@gmail.com>
Description: A collection of tools that allow users to perform critical steps
in the process of assessing ecological niche evolution over phylogenies, with
uncertainty incorporated explicitly in reconstructions. The method proposed
here for ancestral reconstruction of ecological niches characterizes species'
niches using a bin-based approach that incorporates uncertainty in estimations.
Compared to other existing methods, the approaches presented here reduce risk
of overestimation of amounts and rates of ecological niche evolution. The
main analyses include: initial exploration of environmental data in occurrence
records and accessible areas, preparation of data for phylogenetic analyses,
executing comparative phylogenetic analyses of ecological niches, and plotting
for interpretations. Details on the theoretical background and methods used
can be found in: Peterson et al. (1999) <doi:10.1126/science.285.5431.1265>,
Soberon and Peterson (2005) <doi:10.17161/bi.v2i0.4>,
Imports: castor (>= 1.4), concaveman (>= 1.0), geiger (>= 2.0),
graphics (>= 3.6), grDevices (>= 3.6), raster (>= 2.6), rgdal
Suggests: knitr(>= 1.25), phytools (>= 0.6)

Description: Tools for reading and writing NIfTI-1.1 (NII) files, including optimized voxelwise read/write operations and a simplified method to write dataframes to NII.
Specification of the NIfTI-1.1 format can be found here <https://nifti.nimh.nih.gov/nifti-1>.
Scientific publication first using these tools
Koscik TR, Man V, Jahn A, Lee CH, Cunningham WA (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116764> "Decomposing the neural pathways in a simple, value-based choice." Neuroimage, 214, 116764.

Title: Common Analysis with Remote Sensing Data
Authors@R: person("Rafael", "Hernandez-Guzman", role=c("aut","cre"), email = "rhernandez.g@gmail.com", comment = c(ORCID ="0000-0002-2711-9015"))
Description: A collection of functions used in remote sensing analysis (e.g., conversion from digital numbers to radiance, reflectance, and temperature). It includes several algorithms to calculate the albedo: Liang (2000) <doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(00)00205-4>, Silva et al. (2016) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2016-051>, Tasumi et al. (2008) <doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2008)13:2(51)>, among others. Although the current version implements basic functions, it will be expandable to a more robust tool for water cycle modeling (e.g., to include surface runoff and evapotranspiration calculations) in the near future.
This package is under development at the Institute about Natural Resources Research (INIRENA) from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo.
Author: Rafael Hernandez-Guzman [aut, cre]