Software

HydroBOT

An R package providing consistent modelling of response to flows in the Murrray-Darling Basin, incorporating scenario analysis and automated workflows, as well as consistent, safe scaling along space, time, and ecological causal networks. HydroBOT forms the core of the climate adaptation toolkit developed for the climate adaptation theme of the Murray–Darling Water and Environment Research Program. HydroBOT is described at (Holt et al. 2025), with documentation here.

hydrogauge

An R package for querying BoM and Australian state water gauge APIs. Useful not only for pulling flow data, but also identifying available parameters and periods of record.

eFlowEval

A workflow and R package for modelling ecological response in flexible but standardised ways in wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin, with capacity for spatial scaling and synthesis. See Holt, Macqueen, and Lester (2024).

peeler

An R package implementing the bvstep algorithm from Clarke and Warwick (1998), enabling reproducible and auutomated use. Also provides the ability to ‘peel’ those outcomes (not recommended).

Other

I have a number of other repositories consisting of data analyses for published papers and demonstration/testing/template repositories (often discussed in more detail in code demos.)

Private packages

I develop a number of other packages and data analysis repositories, but most are private due to data embargoes.

References

Clarke, K. R., and R. M. Warwick. 1998. “Quantifying Structural Redundancy in Ecological Communities.” Oecologia 113 (2): 278–89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420050379.
Holt, Galen, Ashley Macqueen, and Rebecca E. Lester. 2024. “A Flexible Consistent Framework for Modelling Multiple Interacting Environmental Responses to Management in Space and Time.” Journal of Environmental Management 367 (September): 122054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122054.