A Platform for the Study of Macro-Ecology of Life History Traits

Tools for generation of (life-history) traits and diversity maps on hexagonal or square grids. Valcu et al.(2012) .

rangeMapper

A framework for the study of macroecological patterns of life-history traits.

rangeMapper builds upon three types of data:

1. Species distribution ranges
2. Life-history datasets
3. Environmental rasters

rangeMapper is build on three concepts:

1. The canvas which is a regular grid of squares or hexagons.
2. The subsets which are defined by combinations of life-history datasets and map data.
3. The maps representing one or several variables summarised on the canvas.

File format

rangeMapper’s project containers are sqlite files.

Installation

# Install release version from CRAN
install.packages("rangeMapper")

# Install development version from GitHub
remotes::install_github("mpio-be/rangeMapper")