Package: insights 0.8

insights: An R implementation of the InSiGHTS framework

Implements the InSiGHTS (Index of Habitat Availability) modelling framework for assessing how climate change and land-use change affect the availability of suitable habitat for species over time. The package refines binary range maps or probabilistic species distribution models (SDMs) with fractional land-use layers to produce area-of-habitat (AOH) estimates across present and future time steps. An optional temporal discount function accounts for habitat maturity, allowing newly established land cover to be weighted according to its effective ecological value. Output summaries express habitat availability as absolute area or as a relative index with respect to a user-defined reference year. The package is designed to work seamlessly with the ibis.iSDM package but can also accept any SpatRaster or stars object as range input.

Authors:Martin Jung [aut, cre]