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Source: NEWS.md

DeltaMultipleBenefits 1.1.0 - 2026-05-14

Minor release including many updates and improvements to package documentation, data, and functions. This release also includes partial support for the distribution models developed for tidal marsh bird focal species in Phase 2. Work in progress to test and finalize this support before the next major release.

Documentation

  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
  • Updated references to relevant publications
  • Added information about Phase II, focused on tidal wetland restoration and tidal marsh birds
  • Added documentation to fit_SDM about the LANDCOVER predictors required to fit SDMs for tidal marsh focal species

Data

  • metrics: Added Nitrogen loading metrics to allow calculating net change between scenarios
  • key: Added tidal wetland vegetation subclasses to support distribution models for tidal marsh bird focal species

Functions

  • Eliminated dependence on magrittr package
  • reclassify_landcover: updated to support additional vegetation subclasses introduced in Phase II, including changes to how land covers are handled for the previous riparian and wetland SDMs; needs double-checking for final changes to tidal marsh SDMs since Nov 2025
  • python_focal_finalize: added support for renaming focal stats as required to fit the tidal marsh SDMs
  • python_focal_prep: updated documentation to indicate support for tidal marsh SDMs when it calls the reclassify_landcover function
  • sum_habitat: Added support for specifying “tima” as a type of SDMs and general support for unrecognized SDMs; Added a more general regex arguments to allow selecting a subset of rasters rather than defaulting to all rasters in the directory
  • sum_landcover: Generalized the “rollup” argument to only require wetland subclasses to start with “WETLAND” rather than “WETLAND_MANAGED”
  • transform_SDM: Added a more general regex argument to allow selecting a subset of rasters rather than defaulting to all rasters in the directory
  • update_covertype: Added support for generating the categorical LANDCOVER predictor as required to fit the tidal marsh SDMs; needs double-checking for final changes to tidal marsh SDMs since Nov 2025

DeltaMultipleBenefits 1.0.0 - 2023-03-10