Package: SiMRiv
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2017-07-24
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")
)
Depends: R (>= 1.8.0), raster
Imports: methods, stats, sp, mco, parallel, rgdal
Suggests: adehabitatLT, moveHMM, rgeos
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 simulate 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 moving
mainly along rivers but also using the matrix), 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 mechanistic
null models to test e.g. for species site fidelity and other 'Movement Ecology' hypotheses, or
for other predictive purposes. 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.
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: https://www.r-project.org, https://github.com/miguel-porto/SiMRiv
BugReports: https://github.com/miguel-porto/SiMRiv
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2017-07-27 09:17:53 UTC; miguel
Author: Lorenzo Quaglietta [aut],
Miguel Porto [aut, cre],
Erida Gjini [ctb]
Maintainer: Miguel Porto <mpbertolo@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2017-07-27 10:53:24 UTC