Bats3: The third Bats dataset

Bats3R Documentation

The third Bats dataset

Description

The dataset describes the vocal activity of Noctule bats in autumn time in Eastern Ukraine. Not long ago, bats were migrating to the south to get food before hibernation, but now they stay where they were born for hibernation and become sedentary. The goal is to understand which environmental variables predict their level of activity (the column "calls" which contain a number of recorded calls which bats emit in flight at the site) and the probability of feeding (the column "buzz" represent 0 and 1 of presence/absence of specific feeding calls, which confirm feeding activity at the site). However, the data could be zero-inflated and yet the probability of buzz usually will be related to the presence of vocal activity first.

Usage

Bats3

Format

A data frame with 70 rows and 21 variables:

Site

the ID of recording site

lat

the latitude

long

the longitude

date

the date of recording

temp

the temperature in C

cloud

cloudiness in parts (max 1)

precip

0 or 1 of rain (usually 0 as we won't expect bat activity during the rain)

light

categorical variable 0,1,2,3 where 0 absolute absence of artificial light and 3 full illumination

time

the time of recording

calls

the number of recorded calls of Noctule bat

buzz

0 and 1 of feeding buzzes

eser

the number of calls of another bat species Serotine bat

pkuhl

the number of calls of another bat species Kuhl's pipistrelle

farm

the area of farmland

green

the area of vegetation coverage

road

the area of roads

urban

the area of urban coverage

water

the area of water

ndvi_mean

the NDVI index mean for the plot

ndvi_SD

the standard deviation of NDVI index for plot

time_rel

the number of hours since the first collection

Details

Land type use categories are given in square meters within plots of 1 km radius around recording points.

Source

Data collected by Kseniia Kravchenko, UIEI Ukraine


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