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```{r, echo = FALSE, message=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
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)
library(raster)
library(sp)
library(CENFA)
```
# An introduction to the `CENFA` package

`Version: 0.1.0`

`Date: 2018-1-31`

`Author: D. Scott Rinnan`

`Maintainer: D. Scott Rinnan <rinnan@u.washington.edu>`

## Introduction

`CENFA` provides tools for performing ecological-niche factor analysis (ENFA) 
and climate-niche factor analysis (CNFA). This package was created with three 
goals in mind:

- To update the ENFA method for use with large datasets and modern data formats.
- To correct a critical error in the ENFA method itself, that has managed to 
  persist since Hirzel et al. first introduced ENFA in 2002.
- To expand the application of ENFA in the context of climate change in order to 
  quantify different aspects of species vulnerability to climate change, and to 
  facilitate quantitative comparisons of vulnerability between species.

`CENFA` takes advantage of the `raster` and `sp` packages, allowing the user to 
conduct analyses directly with raster, shapefile, and point data, and to handle 
large datasets efficiently via partial data loading and parallelization.

## Examples

### `enfa`

We will use some example datasets to perform a basic ENFA. The historical climate
dataset `climdat.hist` is a RasterBrick of 10 climate variables, covering much of
the western US coast. `QUGA` is a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame of the historical 
range map of Oregon white oak (*Quercus garryana*). 

A plot of the data, using the one of the layers of `climdat.hist`:

```{r QUGA-plot, echo=FALSE}
par(mar = c(1, 1, 1, 1))
plot(QUGA, col = "darkgreen", main = "Oregon white oak distribution")
plot(climdat.hist[["PWQ"]] / 10, add = T, 
     legend.lab = "Precip of wettest quarter (cm)", smallplot = c(.7, .71, .3, .7))
plot(QUGA, add = T, col = "darkgreen")
```

The `enfa` function takes three basic arguments: the dataset of ecological variables 
(`climdat.hist`), the map of species presence (`QUGA`), and the values of `QUGA` 
that specify presence (in this case, a column named "CODE"). Calling the `enfa` 
object by name provides a standard summary of the ENFA results.

```{r enfa}
mod.enfa <- enfa(x = climdat.hist, s.dat = QUGA, field = "CODE")
mod.enfa
```

### `scatter`

We can visualize the ENFA results via the `scatter` function, which produces a 
biplot of the marginality axis and one of the specialization axes. This gives us 
a portrait of the species' niche to compare with the global niche of the reference 
study area, with the ecological axes projected onto the ENFA dimensions. (Note: 
since `mod.enfa` only contains information about the species habitat, we must 
first construct a `GLcenfa` object that also describes the global habitat.)

```{r "scatter"}
glc <- GLcenfa(x = climdat.hist)
scatter(x = mod.enfa, y = glc)
```

For larger datasets, we can speed up the computation via parallelization. We 
provide two additional arguments, `parallel = TRUE`, and `n`, which specifies 
the number of cores to use. `n` has a default value of 1, so only setting 
`parallel = TRUE` will not parallelize the function by itself.

```{r example-big, eval=FALSE}
# does not enable parallelization
mod <- enfa(x = climdat.hist, s.dat = QUGA, field = "CODE", parallel = TRUE)

# enables parallelization across 4 cores
mod <- enfa(x = climdat.hist, s.dat = QUGA, field = "CODE", parallel = TRUE, n = 4)
```

The function will attempt to match the value provided to `n` with the number of 
cores detected on the local device via `parallel::detectCores()`; if the provided 
`n` is greater than the number of available cores `k`, a warning will be issued 
and `n` will be set to `k - 1`.

### `cnfa`

The `cnfa` function is very similar to `enfa`, but performs a slightly different 
analysis. Whereas ENFA returns a *specialization factor* (the eigenvalues of 
specialization) describing the amount of specialization found in each *ENFA factor*, 
CNFA returns a *sensitivity factor* that reflects the amount of sensitivity 
found in each *ecological variable*. This makes the sensitivity factor more 
directly comparable to the marginality factor, and more interpretable in the 
context of species' sensitivity to a given variable.

```{r cnfa}
mod.cnfa <- cnfa(x = climdat.hist, s.dat = QUGA, field = "CODE")
mod.cnfa
```

Using the `sensitivity_map` function, we can create a habitat map that identifies 
where we expect the species to be most sensitivite to changes in climate.

```{r "sensitivity-map", echo=1}
s.map <- sensitivity_map(mod.cnfa)

par(mar = c(1, 1, 1, 1))
plot(QUGA, col = "darkgreen", main = "Oregon white oak sensitivity")
maps::map("state", regions = c("California", "Oregon", "Washington"), add = T, resolution = 0)
maps::map("world", regions = c("Canada"), add = T, resolution = 0)
stretchPlot(s.map, type = "sd", n = 2, add = T,
    smallplot = c(.7, .71, .3, .7))
```

### `departure`

The `departure` function provides a measure of a species' potential exposure to 
climate change. It takes a future climate dataset as an additional argument, and 
calculates the absolute differences between historical and future values.

```{r "departure"}
dep <- departure(x = climdat.hist, y = climdat.fut, s.dat = QUGA, field = "CODE")
dep
```

The departure factor tells us the average amount of change that is expected in 
each climate variable across the species' range. Using the `exposure_map` function, 
we can create a habitat map that identifies where we expect the species to be most 
exposed to climate change.

```{r "exposure-map", echo=1}
e.map <- exposure_map(dep)
par(mar = c(1, 1, 1, 1))
plot(QUGA, col = "darkgreen", main = "Oregon white oak exposure")
maps::map("state", regions = c("California", "Oregon", "Washington"), add = T, resolution = 0)
maps::map("world", regions = c("Canada"), add = T, resolution = 0)
stretchPlot(e.map, type = "sd", n = 2, add = T,
    smallplot = c(.7, .71, .3, .7))
```

### `vulnerability`

The `vulnerability` function provides a measure of a species' potential vulnerability 
to climate change, taking both sensitivity and exposure into account. It takes a 
`cnfa` object and a `departure` object as its arguments.

```{r}
vuln <- vulnerability(cnfa = mod.cnfa, dep = dep)
vuln
```

Using the `vulnerability_map` function, we can create a habitat map that identifies 
where we expect the species to be most vulnerable to climate change.

```{r "vulnerability-map", echo=1}
v.map <- vulnerability_map(vuln)
par(mar = c(1, 1, 1, 1))
plot(QUGA, col = "darkgreen", main = "Oregon white oak vulnerability")
maps::map("state", regions = c("California", "Oregon", "Washington"), add = T, resolution = 0)
maps::map("world", regions = c("Canada"), add = T, resolution = 0)
stretchPlot(v.map, type = "sd", n = 2, add = T,
    smallplot = c(.7, .71, .3, .7))
```

## Useful raster functions

The `raster` package contains the `clusterR` function, which enables parallelization 
methods for certain raster operations. `clusterR` only works on functions that 
operate on a cell-by-cell basis, however, which limits its usefulness. The `CENFA` 
package contains a few functions that speed up some basic `raster` functions 
considerably by parallelizing on a layer-by-layer basis rather than a cell-by-cell 
basis.

### `parScale`

The `parScale` function is identical to `raster::scale`, but has a parallelization 
option that will scale each raster layer in parallel. The `center` and `scale` 
arguments can be logical (`TRUE` or `FALSE`) or numeric vectors.

```{r "parScale", eval=FALSE}
clim.scaled <- parScale(x = climdat.hist, parallel = TRUE, n = 4)
```

### `parCov`

The `parCov` function returns the covariance matrix of a Raster* object `x`, 
computing the covariance between each layer of `x`. This is similar to 
`raster::layerStats(x, stat = 'cov')`, but much faster when parallelization is 
employed.

```{r "parCov-1", eval=FALSE}
mat <- parCov(x = climdat.hist, parallel = TRUE, n = 4)
```

Additionally, `parCov` can accept two Raster* objects as arguments, similar to 
`stats::cov(x, y)`. If two Raster* objects are supplied, then the covariance is 
calculated between the layers of `x` and the layers of `y`.

```{r "parCov-2", eval=FALSE}
mat <- parCov(x = climdat.hist, y = climdat.fut, parallel = TRUE, n = 4)
```

### `stretchPlot`

The `stretchPlot` function provides a simple way to adjust the contrast of plots 
of RasterLayers to emphasize difference in values. It can perform histogram 
equalization and standard deviation stretching.

```{r "stretchPlot", fig.width=8, fig.height = 5}
sm <- sensitivity_map(mod.cnfa)
par(mfrow = c(1, 3), oma = c(1,1,1,1))
stretchPlot(sm, main = "linear")
stretchPlot(sm, type = "hist.equal", main = "Histogram equalization")
stretchPlot(sm, type = "sd", n = 2, main = "Standard deviation (n = 2)")
```

## References

Basille, Mathieu, et al. Assessing habitat selection using multivariate
statistics: Some refinements of the ecological-niche factor analysis. Ecological
Modelling 211.1 (2008): 233-240.

Hirzel, Alexandre H., et al. Ecological-niche factor analysis: how to compute
habitat-suitability maps without absence data?. Ecology 83.7 (2002): 2027-2036.
