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Extending functional niche generator to include skew normal distribution

Open tretherington opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

We don't necessarily know that the fundamental niche is elliptical, and some of the early niche theory that virtualNicheR is based upon used more 'egg-shaped' niches (Maguire 1973).

Jiménez et al. (2019) generated fundamental niches using a skew normal distribution which does produce 'egg-shaped' niches, so this could be a useful future enhancement for virtualNicheR if there was a need for these shapes.

tretherington avatar Aug 05 '19 22:08 tretherington