Modelling invasion potential of Bighead Carp under climate change: effects of seasonal temperatures on a recruitment bottleneck (code and data)

<h1>Overview</h1>
This is a deposit of the code and data used to produce the results examined in the article <i>Modelling invasion potential of Bighead Carp under climate change: effects of seasonal temperatures on a recruitment bottleneck</i>, published in Biological Invasions.
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<h3> DATA </h3>
<b>The data included are:</b>
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<li>empirical mean daily water temperature series (℃) for the Nipigon, St. Louis, Genesee, Vermillion, and Thames rivers in Ontario, Canada (baseline time period)</li>
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<li>daily mean air temperature series (℃) projected by an ensemble of general circulation models under the SSP5-8.5 climate change scenario for the Nipigon, St. Louis, Genesee, and Vermillion rivers for the time period of 2015–2100</li>
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<h3> CODE </h3>
<b>The scripts included perform the routines of:</b>
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<li>downloading each individual climate model's projections for each tributary for each year</li>
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<li>reformatting and consolidating projected air temperature data</li>
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<li>validating and converting projections to water temperatures for use in simulations</li>
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<li>loading a library of functions for running the model</li>
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<li>running the model and exporting the results</li>
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