NCRNbirds-class: S4 Class Definition for NCRNbirds
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NCRNbirds-class

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S4 Class Definition for NCRNbirds

Description

#' An S4 class that contains the data from bird monitoring at a set of monitoring points. This will typcially be a single park, but it could be any group of plots, including part of a park or a group of parks.

Slots

ParkCode: A short code to designate the park (or group of plots), typically an NPS 4 letter code. Stored as a length 1 character vector.
ShortName: A short name for the park. Stored as a length 1 character vector.
LongName: A long, formal name for the park. Stored as a length 1 character vector.
Network: The code for the Inventory & Montoirng network (or other network) the park belongs to. Stored as a length 1 character vector.
VisitNumber: A numeric vector of length 1. The number of visits that is typically made to each point. This serves as the default number of visits for other functions.
Bands: A data.frame with metadata for the distance bands used during monitoring. Includes a name, min distance and max distance for each band.
Intervals: A data.frame with mmeatdata for the time intervals used during monitroing. Includes a name start time in minutes and end time in minutes for each interval.
Points: A data.frame with metadata for the monitoring points, such as names and lat/long.
Visits: A data.frame with metadata for each sampling visit.
Birds: A data.frame with the bird monitoring data. Each row is an observation of a number of individuals of a particular species at a particular point, visit, time interval and distance band.
Species: A data.frame with metadata about the bird species, including AOU (American Ornithological Union) Code, Latin and common names, as well as the "Taxonomic Order" which indicates the order the species should be in to make lists familiar to birders.
Guilds: A data.frame which indicates which birds species are in which guild to allow calculation of the BCI.