Rebaudo François auteur aut IRD Struelens Quentin auteur aut IRD Dangles Olivier auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf reformatted digital access 1. Thermal biologists are interested in generating paired data on development rates and temperatures, but they are in need of automated tools to accurately analyse this data. 2. Fed with a database of more than 30 existing development models, the DEVRATE package provides tools for plotting and visualizing data, selecting the most appropriate model, and mapping and forecasting ectotherm phenology using temperature time-series data. Most proposed models are for arthropods, mainly insects (e.g. Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera). 3. This paper presents the main functions of the package and provides an example using an empirical dataset. 4. The devRate package provides investigators with a unique set of tools and a database that allows them to fit development rate models, and to compare arthropod response to temperature. specialized life cycle model fitting performance physiological process 020 9 4 1144-1150 2018 2041-210X https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010072731 10.1111/2041-210x.12935 2041-210X [F B010072731] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010072731 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers18-05/010072731.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2018-06-01 2023-11-27 fdi:010072731 fre