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message: 'To cite package "NLMR" in publications use:'
type: software
license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'NLMR: Simulating Neutral Landscape Models'
version: 1.4.0
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.NLMR
abstract: Provides neutral landscape models (<https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02275262>,
  <https://sci-hub.in/10.1007/bf02275262>). Neutral landscape models range from "hard"
  neutral models (completely random distributed), to "soft" neutral models (definable
  spatial characteristics) and generate landscape patterns that are independent of
  ecological processes. Thus, these patterns can be used as null models in landscape
  ecology. 'NLMR' combines a large number of algorithms from other published software
  for simulating neutral landscapes. The simulation results are obtained in a spatial
  data format (SpatRaster objects from the 'terra' package) and can, therefore, be
  used in any sort of raster data operation that is performed with standard observation
  data.
authors:
- family-names: Sciaini
  given-names: Marco
  email: marco.sciaini@posteo.net
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3042-5435
- family-names: Fritsch
  given-names: Matthias
  email: matthias.fritsch@forst.uni-goettingen.de
- family-names: Hesselbarth
  given-names: Maximilian
  email: mhk.hesselbarth@gmail.com
- family-names: Simpkins
  given-names: Craig
  email: simpkinscraig063@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3212-1379
- family-names: Scherer
  given-names: Cédric
  email: cedricphilippscherer@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0465-2543
- family-names: Hanß
  given-names: Sebastian
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3990-4897
- family-names: Nowosad
  given-names: Jakub
  email: nowosad.jakub@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1057-3721
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'NLMR: Simulating Neutral Landscape Models'
  authors:
  - family-names: Sciaini
    given-names: Marco
    email: marco.sciaini@posteo.net
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3042-5435
  - family-names: Fritsch
    given-names: Matthias
    email: matthias.fritsch@forst.uni-goettingen.de
  - family-names: Hesselbarth
    given-names: Maximilian
    email: mhk.hesselbarth@gmail.com
  - family-names: Simpkins
    given-names: Craig
    email: simpkinscraig063@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3212-1379
  - family-names: Scherer
    given-names: Cédric
    email: cedricphilippscherer@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0465-2543
  - family-names: Hanß
    given-names: Sebastian
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3990-4897
  - family-names: Nowosad
    given-names: Jakub
    email: nowosad.jakub@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1057-3721
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 1.4.0
  url: https://docs.ropensci.org/NLMR/
repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ropensci/NLMR/issues/
commit: 9f8c0db8c4543db6e3ea84c62b6a092406eaca54
url: https://docs.ropensci.org/NLMR/
date-released: '2026-09-10'
contact:
- family-names: Nowosad
  given-names: Jakub
  email: nowosad.jakub@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1057-3721
references:
- type: article
  title: 'NLMR and landscapetools: An integrated environment for simulating and modifying
    neutral landscape models in R'
  authors:
  - family-names: Sciaini
    given-names: Marco
  - family-names: Fritsch
    given-names: Matthias
  - family-names: Scherer
    given-names: Cedric
  - family-names: Simpkins
    given-names: Craig
  journal: Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  year: '2018'
  volume: '9'
  doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13076
  start: '2240'
  end: '2248'