Package: SiMRiv
Version: 0.9
Date: 2016-07-12
Title: Individual-Based, Spatially-Explicit Simulation and Analysis of
Multi-State Movements in River Networks and Heterogeneous
Landscapes
Authors@R: c(person("Lorenzo", "Quaglietta", role = c("aut"), email = "lontrenzo@gmail.com")
,person("Miguel", "Porto", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "mpbertolo@gmail.com")
,person("Erida", "Gjini", role = c("ctb"), email = "egjini@igc.gulbenkian.pt")
,person("Bob", "Harris", role = c("ctb"))
)
Depends: R (>= 1.8.0), raster
Imports: methods, stats
Suggests: adehabitatLT, maptools
Description: Provides functions to generate and analyze individual-based spatially-explicit
simulations of multi-state movements in heterogeneous landscapes, based on "resistance"
rasters. Although originally conceived and designed to fill the gap of softwares simulating
spatially-explicit trajectories of species constrained to linear, dendritic habitats
(e.g., river networks), the simulation algorithm is built to be highly flexible and can be
applied to any (aquatic, semi-aquatic or terrestrial) organism. Thus, the user will be able
to use the package to simulate movements either in homogeneous landscapes, heterogeneous
landscapes (e.g. semi-aquatic animal in a riverscape), or even in highly contrasted
landscapes (e.g. fish in a river network). The algorithm and its input parameters are
the same for all cases, so that results are comparable. Simulated trajectories can then
be used as null models to test e.g. for species site fidelity and other movement ecology
hypotheses, or to build predictive, mechanistic movement models, among other things. The
package should thus be relevant to explore a broad spectrum of ecological phenomena, such
as those at the interface of animal behaviour, landscape, spatial and movement ecology,
disease and invasive species spread, and population dynamics. This is the first released
experimental version; do test before using in production.
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: http://www.r-project.org, https://github.com/miguel-porto/SiMRiv
BugReports: https://github.com/miguel-porto/SiMRiv
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2016-07-12 09:27:07 UTC; miguel
Author: Lorenzo Quaglietta [aut],
Miguel Porto [aut, cre],
Erida Gjini [ctb],
Bob Harris [ctb]
Maintainer: Miguel Porto <mpbertolo@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2016-07-12 13:36:28