virtualSpecies: Named list describing a virtual species.

In BlasBenito/SDMworkshop: Streamlining the Development of Species Distribution Models

Description

Named list with 5 named slots containing a description of a virtual species generated with the function makeVirtualSpecies, which depends on the function generateSpFromFun (Leroy et al. 2015). The list slots are:

• niche.dimensions: vector with the names of the variables in europe2000 used to define the ecological niche of the virtual species.

• niche.parameters: data frame with the mean (column mean) and the standard deviation (column sd) of the normal functions used to define the ecological niche of the virtual species.

• niche.plot: plot describing the niche and distribution of the species.

• suitability: raster map, suitability raster for the virtual species as defined by generateSpFromFun.

• observed.presence: data frame with the coordinates x and y (reference system WGS84, EPSG 4326) of the simulated presences of the virtual species.

Usage

virtualSpecies

Format

Named list.

References

Leroy B, Meynard CN, Bellard C, Courchamp F (2015). “virtualspecies, an R package to generate virtual species distributions.” Ecography. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01388.

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