PointedSDMs - Fit Models Derived from Point Processes to Species Distributions
using 'inlabru'
Integrated species distribution modeling is a rising field
in quantitative ecology thanks to significant rises in the
quantity of data available, increases in computational speed
and the proven benefits of using such models. Despite this, the
general software to help ecologists construct such models in an
easy-to-use framework is lacking. We therefore introduce the R
package 'PointedSDMs': which provides the tools to help
ecologists set up integrated models and perform inference on
them. There are also functions within the package to help run
spatial cross-validation for model selection, as well as
generic plotting and predicting functions. An introduction to
these methods is discussed in Issac, Jarzyna, Keil, Dambly,
Boersch-Supan, Browning, Freeman, Golding, Guillera-Arroita,
Henrys, Jarvis, Lahoz-Monfort, Pagel, Pescott, Schmucki,
Simmonds and O’Hara (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.08.006>.
