rWind: download, edit and include wind data in ecological and evolutionary analysis

1) Wind connectivity has been identified as a key factor driving many biological processes. 2) Existing software available for managing wind data are often overly complex for studying many ecological processes and cannot be incorporated into a broad framework. 3) Here we present rWind, an R language...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Fernández-López, Javier, Schliep, Klaus
Format: article
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/129879
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/129879
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:591.5
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519.87:004
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Wind connectivity
Landscape genetics
Ecología (Biología)
Software
2401.06 Ecología Animal
2417.13 Ecología Vegetal
1203.26 Simulación
2505.01 Biogeografía
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Summary:1) Wind connectivity has been identified as a key factor driving many biological processes. 2) Existing software available for managing wind data are often overly complex for studying many ecological processes and cannot be incorporated into a broad framework. 3) Here we present rWind, an R language package to download and manage surface wind data from the Global Forecasting System and to compute wind connectivity between locations. 4) Data obtained with rWind can be used in a general framework for analysis of biological processes to develop hypotheses about the role of wind in driving ecological and evolutionary patterns.