R package for dynamic bioenergetic modeling of coral-Symbiodinium symbioses

This package contains functions to run simulations and visualize results of a dynamic bioenergetic model of coral-Symbiodinium symbioses. Light, nutrients, and feeding can be manipulated to produce customized, integrated simulations of coral growth and dynamics of symbiosis (e.g., the symbiont to host biomass ratio), including coral bleaching and recovery.

Install the coRal package in R: devtools::install_github("jrcunning/coRal")

The model is described in this paper:

Cunning R, Muller EB, Gates RD, Nisbet RM (2017) A dynamic bioenergetic model for coral-Symbiodinium symbioses and coral bleaching as an alternate stable state. J Theor Biol 431:49-62. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.08.003