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caribouMetrics: Models and Metrics of Boreal Caribou Demography and Habitat Selection

Description

caribouMetrics provides implementations of several models of Boreal woodland caribou demography and habitat selection. A national demographic model with density dependence and interannual variability follows [Johnson et. al. (2020)](doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13637) with modifications described in [Dyson et al. (2022)](https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.01.494350). Demographic rates vary with disturbance as estimated by [Johnson et. al. (2020)](doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13637). The package also includes a Bayesian population model designed to integrate prior information from Johnson et al's national analysis of demographic-disturbance relationships with available local demographic data to reduce uncertainty in population viability projections. Some aspects of the Bayesian population model implementation were derived from [Eacker et al. (2019)](https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.950). The national model can be used to simulate example population trajectories, and combined with a simple observation model and the Bayesian population model to show how monitoring requirements depend on landscape condition. Finally, caribouMetrics contains an implementation of [Hornseth and Rempel's (2016)](https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2015-0101) Ontario boreal caribou resource selection model described in [Dyson et al. (2022)](https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.01.494350). Model implementation is intended to be modular and flexible, allowing reuse of components in a variety of contexts including projections of the cumulative effects of disturbance and climate change [(e.g. Stewart et al. 2023)](https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2816).

Author(s)

Maintainer: Sarah Endicott [e-mail] (ORCID)

Authors:

• Josie Hughes [e-mail] (ORCID)

• Craig Simpkins [e-mail]

• Tati Michelleti [e-mail] (Functions getCoefs and sampleRates are derived from code written by Tati Micheletti) [copyright holder]

• Eliot McIntire [e-mail]

Other contributors:

• Daniel Eacker (Lead author of paper where code modified in caribouBayesianPM, plotRes, and getSumStats was published) [copyright holder]

• Saralees Nadarajah (Author of truncdist package, which function rtrunc and qtrunc were modified from) [copyright holder]

• Frederick Novomestky (Author of truncdist package, which function rtrunc and qtrunc were modified from) [copyright holder]

• Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change [copyright holder]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://landscitech.github.io/caribouMetrics

• https://github.com/LandSciTech/caribouMetrics

LandSciTech/caribouMetrics documentation built on Feb. 25, 2025, 9:34 a.m.