turtles: Arrival directions of displaced sea turtles
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Arrival directions of displaced sea turtles
Description
The _turtles_ dataset has 10 rows and 2 columns. The observations are the directions from which 10 green sea turtles approached their nesting island (Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean) after having been displaced to open-sea sites.
Usage
data(turtles)
Format
A data frame with 10 observations on the following 2 variables.
ida numeric vector: the turtle ID
arrivala numeric vector: the direction of arrival to Ascension Island
Source
Luschi, P., Akesson, S., Broderick, A. C., Glen, F., Godley, B. J., Papi F., and Hays, G. C. (2001) Testing the navigational abilities of ocean migrants: displacement experiments on green sea turtles (_Chelonia mydas_). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. (50):528-534.
Examples
data(turtles)
turtles[,2] <- circular(turtles[,2], units='degrees', template='geographics')
plot(turtles[,2])
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Arrival directions of displaced sea turtles
Description
The _turtles_ dataset has 10 rows and 2 columns. The observations are the directions from which 10 green sea turtles approached their nesting island (Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean) after having been displaced to open-sea sites.
Usage
data(turtles)Format
A data frame with 10 observations on the following 2 variables.
ida numeric vector: the turtle ID
arrivala numeric vector: the direction of arrival to Ascension Island
Source
Luschi, P., Akesson, S., Broderick, A. C., Glen, F., Godley, B. J., Papi F., and Hays, G. C. (2001) Testing the navigational abilities of ocean migrants: displacement experiments on green sea turtles (_Chelonia mydas_). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. (50):528-534.
Examples
data(turtles)
turtles[,2] <- circular(turtles[,2], units='degrees', template='geographics')
plot(turtles[,2])
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