muskox: Muskox movement data

In JenniferPohle/PHSMM: Penalised maximum likelihood estimation for hidden semi-Markov models

Description

Example data about the movement of a muskox tracked in northeast Greenland.

Usage

muskox

Format

A data frame with 6825 GPS-based observations and 5 columns:

• date: data

• tday: time of day

• x: UTM easting coordinate

• y: UTM northing coordinate

• step: hourly step length calculated based on the coordinates of time t and time t+1

Source

Schmidt, N.M. (2020). Data for "An application of upscaled optimal foraging theory using hidden Markov modelling: year-round behavioural variation in a large arctic herbivore" [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3768080.

References

The data set is based on a subset of the data described and analysed in:

Beumer, L.T., Pohle, J., Schmidt, N.M, Chimienti, M., Desforges, J.-P., Hansen, L.H., Langrock, R., Pedersen, S.H., Stelvig, M. and van Beest, F.M. (2020). An application of upscaled optimal foraging theory using hidden Markov modelling: year-round behavioural variation in a large arctic herbivore". Movement Ecology, 8, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-00213-x.

JenniferPohle/PHSMM documentation built on Jan. 27, 2021, 7:07 p.m.