Fig 1.
Pheasant Habitat Simulator workflow.
The strength of the shiny environment is that it reactively submits the user’s land use change decisions to the analytical procedure. The analytical procedure runs in the background to render both predictions and graphical outputs without reloading the page, creating a seamless data exploration experience.
Fig 2.
The “Welcome” tab displays the current pheasant habitat suitability predictions derived from Jorgensen et al. (2014) and instructs the user on how to navigate the application.
Fig 3.
The "Custom Management" tab prompts users to select a Nebraska county of management interest. The slider widgets default to reflect the average landcover of a township in that county, and the reactive plots update as the slider bars are manipulated to show landcover and predicted relative pheasant habitat suitability.
Fig 4.
The "Economic Module" tab displays the user-specified change in landcover proportions in an updating plot. The dynamically updating text panel below the plot shows the economic implications of the user-specified landcover changes over a 10-year period, and explains how the economic analysis was conducted. Users may save their plots for viewing later using the “download your figures” button.
Fig 5.
The "About" tab directs the user to the published source of the pheasant distribution model and to the websites of the developers and cooperating agencies.