mappestRisk - Create Maps Forecasting Risk of Pest Occurrence
There are three different modules: (1) model fitting and
selection using a set of the most commonly used equations
describing developmental responses to temperature helped by
already existing R packages ('rTPC') and nonlinear regression
model functions from 'nls.multstart' (Padfield et al. 2021,
<doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13585>), with visualization of model
predictions to guide ecological criteria for model selection;
(2) calculation of suitability thermal limits, which consist on
a temperature interval delimiting the optimal performance zone
or suitability; and (3) climatic data extraction and
visualization inspired on previous research (Taylor et al.
2019, <doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13455>), with either exportable
rasters, static map images or html, interactive maps.