dynamAedes

Overview

dynamAedes is a unified modelling framework for invasive Aedes mosquitoes.

Users can apply the stochastic, time-discrete and spatially-explicit population dynamical model to four Aedes mosquitoes species: Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, Ae. japonicus and Ae. koreicus

The model is driven by temperature, photoperiod and intra-specific larval competition and can be applied to three different spatial scales: punctual, local and regional. These spatial scales consider different degrees of spatial complexity and data availability, by accounting for both active and passive dispersal of the modelled mosquito species as well as for the heterogeneity of input temperature data.

The main features of dynamAedes:

• dynamAedes is a stochastic model, which imply that the range of daily estimates depends on the number of iterations

• dynamAedes estimate the mosquito population dynamics and extract both its spatial and temporal trend

• At local scale, dynamAedes allow to estimate the active and passive dispersal of adults mosquitoes, returning the the average distance covered in a given period or the total number of colonized cells.

Installation

# Install the released version from CRAN
install.packages("dynamAedes")
# Or the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mattmar/dynamAedes")