Represents the abiotic component (environmental suitability) in the BAM framework. Contains raster-based niche models and their sparse matrix representations.
Slots
niche_model
A
RasterLayer
orRasterStack
representing the environmental suitability model (binary or continuous)suit_threshold
Numeric value used to binarize continuous models
cellIDs
Numeric vector of raster cell IDs with non-NA values
suit_values
Numeric vector of suitability values for continuous models
sparse_model
A sparse matrix (
dgCMatrix
) representation of the niche model