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frair: an R package for fitting and comparing consumer functional responses
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Summary: Consumer‐resource interactions (i.e. the functional response) underpin decades of ecological advancements. However, selecting, fitting and comparing functional response models using appropriate methods remains a non‐trivial endeavour. The R package frair provides tools for selecting and differentiating various forms of consumer functional response models, a consistent interface for fitting and visualising response curves, and a selection of statistically robust methods for comparing fitted parameters. Using real data from crustacean predator‐prey systems, we demonstrate the utility of frair, highlighting best practice and common analytical mistakes.
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“Where categorical functional response models (Type II or III) could not be fitted (i.e. P. leniuscu-lus at 9 °C), a flexible model was fitted (Real 1977; Vucic-Pestic et al. 2010b; Pritchard et al. 2017).”
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- Pritchard, D. W., Paterson, R. A., Bovy, H. C., & Barrios‐O'Neill, D.
- Venue
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-05-15
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- 8
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1528-1534
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- 2041-210X (ISSN-L)
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- W2604700879
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- 263
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- 36
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- 19.32
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- en
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