sikadeer: Sika deer pellet data from southern Scotland
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Because sika deer spend most of their time in woodland areas, abundance estimates are based on pellet group counts. Line transect methods were applied to estimate deer pellet group density by geographic block.

A data frame with 1923 rows and 11 variables.

`Region.Label`	stratum labels
`Area`	size (ha) of each stratum
`Sample.Label`	transect labels
`Defecation.rate`	rate of dung production per individual per day
`Defecation.rate.SE`	variability in defecation rate
`Decay.rate`	time (days) for dung to become undetectable
`Decay.rate.SE`	variability in decay rate
`Effort`	transect length (km)
`object`	object ID
`distance`	perpendicular distance (cm)
`Study.Area`	study area name

Data presented here are from the Peebleshire portion of the study described by Marques et al. (2001).

Marques, F.F.C., S.T. Buckland, D. Goffin, C.E. Dixon, D.L. Borchers, B.A. Mayle, and A.J. Peace. (2001). Estimating deer abundance from line transect surveys of dung: sika deer in southern Scotland. Journal of Applied Ecology 38 (2): 349–363. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00584.x

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