Hi there! Our manuscript about rWind R package has been recently accepted for publication in Ecography! As you know, rWind is a tool used to download and manage wind data, with some utilities that make easy to include wind information in ecological or evolutionary analyses (or others!). Though there are ...

 Hi there! I was training some ways to simulate animal (or other organisms) movements having into account habitat suitability. To do this, I used my previous eWalk model as the underlying process to simulate random or directional walks. This model is based on Brownian / Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. You can find ...

       Last March 8, millions of women in more than 170 countries around the world joined street protests calling for "a society free of sexist oppression, exploitation and violence". Spanish strike was one of the most numerous, where around 5.3 million women joined the strike. Today, I will use some data (download) regarding the ...

Hi all! A researcher asked me last week about how to compute wind average for an area using rWind. I wrote a simple function to do this using dplyr library (following the advice of my friend Javier Fajardo). The function will be added to rWind package as soon as possible. ...

  Hi there!    Over the last few months, my lab-mate Irene Villa (see more of her work here!) and I, have been discussing ecological niche overlap. The niche concept dates back to ideas first proposed by ornithologist J. Grinnell (1917). Later on, G.E. Hutchinson (1957) defined the ecological niche of a species ...

Hi there!  Let me introduce you rWind, an R package with several tools for downloading, editing and converting wind data from Global Forecast System (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs) in other formats as raster for GIS! Wind data is a powerful source of information that could ...

Hey there!  During last months, I was thinking with my friend Javi Fajardo (see his work here!) a little bit more about Brownian / OU process and their applications in biology. Remember that an OU model describes a stochastic Markov process that consist of two parts: first, a Brownian motion (random ...

Hi all! Some time ago, I was studying an article from Tamara Münkemüller et al. 2015: "Phylogenetic niche conservatism – common pitfalls and ways forward". It´s a nice study where the ability of current tools in order to identify the evolutionary model that drives the changes in a trait (...

Here you have some documentation about the nichEvolve model and a link to download the NetLogo code. I will write soon some practical experiments to test with the model... enjoy!Link:  nichEvolve.nlogo*(Don't you have NetLogo installed in your computer? NetLogo is a nice tool to implement simple agent-based ...

 During the last year I was reading some articles about niche conservatism/evolution. There are a lot of theories and methodologies to deal with this kind of questions, but sometimes it's hard to understand all this mathematical and theoretical concepts about models of evolution: Brownian motion models, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes, etc. ...