Roos: Social network study of Eastern grey kangaroos

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Description

This GPS dataset contains the locations of 10 Eastern grey kangaroos Macropus giganteus monitored between 05/01/2010 to 21/12/2011 in South East Queensland, Australia. Data supplied E.C. Best from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia.

Usage

data(Roos)

Format

A data frame containing GPS location data of individual sightings of M. giganteus with the following 3 variables.

ID

a character vector giving the identity of each kangaroo

x

a numeric vector containing the x coordinate of each individual

y

a numeric vector containing the y coordinate of each individual

Details

The coordinates are given in meters GDA94/MGA zone 55

Source

www.berglabs.org

Examples

## Load required packages
library(adehabitatHR)

## Load study data
data(Roos)

## Convert df into a spatial points df object
coordinates(Roos) <- ~x+y

## Plot observed location data with individual kangaroos by colour
plot(Roos,col='red')

## Estimation of UD for the 10 kangaroos
ud <- kernelUD(Roos, same4all=TRUE)

## Plot the UD for the 10 kangaroos
image(ud)

Digiroo2 documentation built on May 1, 2019, 9:50 p.m.