Omnomnomivores

"Never become desperate enough to trust the untrustworthy." ―Moral

The code associated with this repository is essentially taking the metacommunity model from Thompson and Gonzalez 2017 and adding some modification to the workflow to suit the specific research goals/questions. A high-level visual summary of the model itself can be found below:

As for the research aims the idea is to use wombling to look at the rates of change of networks/communities over varying degrees of landscape connectivity and environmental effect. Essentially delivering us with a figure that looks like this:

REPO STRUCTURE

Code associated with the internal functioning of the metacommunity model can be found in lib/.

01_full_simulation.jl is where the process of generating the metacommunites can be found. This includes a 'proofing' (burnin), baking (heating phase where landscape and environmental values are gradually changed), and cooling (where the final 'state' is kept steady to allow community dynamic to 'settle')

02_wombling.jl takes the outputs from the metacomunity simulations and implements the relevant wombling related questions.