Outline

elements is a R package containing ecological niche models for the most prevalent vascular plants, bryophytes, and terricolous lichens in the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) (Chytrý et al., 2016).

elements was created with two primary goals in mind: 1) to extract insights into the ecological niches of the modelled species, to aid ecological understanding; and 2) to provide the capability to generate predictions of habitat suitability considering multiple interacting environmental drivers.

 

For more information please see the Journal of Vegetation Science article (in prep) or the README.

Accessing elements

elements is made available through Zenodo.

DOI

elements is also available, with a small subset of models, via Github.

Recommended citation

To reference the elements please cite the Journal of Vegetation Science article as follows.... [in prep]

Additionally, to cite a particular version of elements retrieve the citation information from the relevant Zenodo release.

 

Acknowledgements

The development of elements was partially supported by the Natural Environment Research Council, through the UKCEH National Capability for UK Challenges Programme NE/Y006208/1.

 

References

Chytrý, M., Hennekens, S.M., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Knollová, I., Dengler, J., Jansen, F., Landucci, F., Schaminée, J.H.J., Aćić, S., Agrillo, E., Ambarlı, D., Angelini, P., Apostolova, I., Attorre, F., Berg, C., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Botta-Dukát, Z., Brisse, H., Campos, J.A., Carlón, L., Čarni, A., Casella, L., Csiky, J., Ćušterevska, R., Dajić Stevanović, Z., Danihelka, J., De Bie, E., de Ruffray, P., De Sanctis, M., Dickoré, W.B., Dimopoulos, P., Dubyna, D., Dziuba, T., Ejrnæs, R., Ermakov, N., Ewald, J., Fanelli, G., Fernández-González, F., FitzPatrick, Ú., Font, X., García-Mijangos, I., Gavilán, R.G., Golub, V., Guarino, R., Haveman, R., Indreica, A., Işık Gürsoy, D., Jandt, U., Janssen, J.A.M., Jiroušek, M., Kącki, Z., Kavgacı, A., Kleikamp, M., Kolomiychuk, V., Krstivojević Ćuk, M., Krstonošić, D., Kuzemko, A., Lenoir, J., Lysenko, T., Marcenò, C., Martynenko, V., Michalcová, D., Moeslund, J.E., Onyshchenko, V., Pedashenko, H., Pérez-Haase, A., Peterka, T., Prokhorov, V., Rašomavičius, V., Rodríguez-Rojo, M.P., Rodwell, J.S., Rogova, T., Ruprecht, E., Rūsiņa, S., Seidler, G., Šibík, J., Šilc, U., Škvorc, Ž., Sopotlieva, D., Stančić, Z., Svenning, J.-C., Swacha, G., Tsiripidis, I., Turtureanu, P.D., Uğurlu, E., Uogintas, D., Valachovič, M., Vashenyak, Y., Vassilev, K., Venanzoni, R., Virtanen, R., Weekes, L., Willner, W., Wohlgemuth, T., Yamalov, S., 2016. European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots. Applied Vegetation Science 19, 173–180. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12191