windscape

MaRDI QIDQ7408811CRANFDO

Authors Matthew Kling

Last update 27 October 2026

Copyright license MIT license, File License

Software version identifier 2.0.0

Description

Model landscape connectivity by wind for ecological and evolutionary analyses. Summarize long time series of gridded wind data, downloaded from reanalyses or supplied by the user, into wind roses describing directional conductance between neighboring grid cells. Model dispersal through them with least-cost path and random walk algorithms, to map windsheds around sites and estimate pairwise connectivity among them, test hypotheses relating wind to ecological data, and visualize wind and connectivity with 'ggplot2'. The approach builds on Kling and Ackerly (2020) <doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0848-3> and Kling and Ackerly (2021) <doi:10.1073/pnas.2017317118>.

Cites work

• Global wind patterns and the vulnerability of wind-dispersed species to climate change
• Global wind patterns shape genetic differentiation, asymmetric gene flow, and genetic diversity in trees

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