The Simulation-based Sampling Protocol (SSP) is an R package designed to estimate sampling effort in studies of ecological communities. It is based on the concept of pseudo-multivariate standard error (MultSE) (Anderson & Santana-Garcon, 2015, <doi:10.1111/ele.12385>) and the simulation of ecological data. The theoretical background is described in Guerra-Castro et al. (2020, <doi:10.1111/ecog.05284>).

Pauly et al. (2008) <http://legacy.seaaroundus.s3.amazonaws.com/doc/Researcher+Publications/dpauly/PDF/2008/Books%26Chapters/FisheriesInLargeMarineEcosystems.pdf> created (and coined the name) 'Stock Status Plots' for a UNEP compendium on Large Marine Ecosystems(LMEs, Sherman and Hempel (2009)<https://marineinfo.org/imis?module=ref&refid=142061&printversion=1&dropIMIStitle=1>). Stock status plots are bivariate graphs summarizing the status (e.g., developing, fully exploited, overexploited, etc.), through time, of the multispecies fisheries of a fished area or ecosystem. This package contains three functions to generate stock status plots viz., SSplots_pauly() (as per the criteria proposed by Pauly et al.,2008), SSplots_kleisner() (as per the criteria proposed by Kleisner and Pauly (2011) <http://www.ecomarres.com/downloads/regional.pdf> and Kleisner et al. (2013) <doi:10.1111/j.1467-2979.2012.00469.x>)and SSplots_EPI() (as per the criteria proposed by Jayasankar et al.,2021 <https://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11364/>).

Implement a GAM-based (Generalized Additive Models) spatial surplus 
    production model (spatial SPM), aimed at modeling northern shrimp population 
    in Atlantic Canada but potentially to any stock in any location. The package 
    is opinionated in its implementation of SPMs as it internally makes the choice 
    to use penalized spatial gams with time lags. However, it also aims to provide 
    options for the user to customize their model. The methods are described in 
    Pedersen et al. (2022, <https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/ResDocs-DocRech/2022/2022_062-eng.html>).