Meeting Abstract
There is a growing appreciation for the biological importance of temperature variability. However, there are few computational tools to facilitate investigations of the ecological consequences of varying temperatures. Here, I introduce Tempcycles, a collection of R tools to facilitate modelling temporally varying temperatures in thermal ecology. Included are tools to measure the cyclical components of a temperature history, generate temperature patterns with specified cycling, and apply these patterns to reaction norms to predict ecological outcomes and generate testable hypotheses. I demonstrate the utility of Tempcycles by addressing several developmental and phenological questions in plants.
