NicheMapR – a general system for mechanistic niche modelling
Michael R. Kearney (1) , Warren P. Porter (2) (1) The University of Melbourne, School of BioSciences, Victoria, 3010 mrke@unimelb.edu.au (2) The University of Wisconsin, School of BioSciences, Victoria, 3010 mrke@unimelb.edu.au Mechanistic niche modelling involves the computation of heat, water and nutritional budgets of organisms as a function of their environments. Such models can be used to make…