R/sparrowSiteData.R

In Rdistance: Density and Abundance from Distance-Sampling Surveys

#' @name sparrowSiteData
#' 
#' @title Brewer's Sparrow site data
#' 
#' @description  
#' Site data from line transect surveys for 
#' Brewer's sparrow on 72 transects 
#' located on a 4105 km^2 study 
#' area in central Wyoming. Data were collected by 
#' Dr. Jason Carlisle of the Wyoming Cooperative Fish & Wildlife
#' Research Unit in 2012. Each transect was 500 meters long.
#' 
#' @docType data
#' 
#' @format A data.frame containing 72 rows and 8 columns.  Each row represents
#' a site (transect) surveyed.  Column descriptions: 
#' 
#' \enumerate{ 
#'   \item \code{siteID}: Factor (72 levels), the site or transect surveyed.  
#'   \item \code{length}: Number, the length (m) of each transect.  
#'   \item \code{observer}: Factor (five levels), identity of the observer 
#'   who surveyed the transect.
#'   \item \code{bare}: Number, the mean bare ground cover (\%) within 100 m of each transect.
#'   \item \code{herb}: Number, the mean herbaceous cover (\%) within 100 m of
#'   each transect.
#'   \item \code{shrub}: Number, the mean shrub cover (\%) within
#'   100 m of each transect.
#'   \item \code{height}: Number, the mean shrub height 
#'   (cm) within 100 m of each transect.
#'   \item \code{shrubclass}: Factor (two levels), shrub class is "Low"" when 
#'   shrub cover is < 10\%, "High" otherwise.  
#' }
#' 
#' @seealso \code{\link{sparrowDetectionData}}
#' 
#' @source The Brewer's sparrow data are a subset of the data collected 
#' by Jason Carlisle and various field technicians for his Ph.D. from the 
#' Department of Ecology, University of Wyoming, in 2017.  This portion of 
#' Jason's work was funded by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department through agreements 
#' with the University of Wyoming's  Cooperative Fish & Wildlife
#' Research Unit (2012). 
#' 
#' @references Carlisle, J.D. 2017. The effect of sage-grouse conservation on
#' wildlife species of concern: Implications for the umbrella species concept.
#' Dissertation. University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA.
#' 
#' Carlisle, J. D., and A. D. Chalfoun. 2020. The abundance of Greater 
#' Sage-Grouse as a proxy for the abundance of sagebrush-associated songbirds 
#' in Wyoming, USA. \emph{Avian Conservation and Ecology} 15(2):16. 
#' \doi{10.5751/ACE-01702-150216}
#' 
#' @keywords datasets
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