bird_convert.distance: Convert distance bins into continuous values

In weverkaj/RMN: Tools for the Rangeland Monitoring Network

Description

The Rangeland Monitoring Program has a few different methods for collecting bird point count data: VCP300, VCP10_30, VCP25, and FR50. To analyze these datasets together the distance bin values (aka character strings) need to be converted to numbers (integers). This is useful for data collected using VCP10_30, VCP25, or FR50 protocols. This was done using the mapvalues function and assigning a number value to all bins. I averaged the max and min values for each distance bin to determine the number value. This should only be used to analyzing point count data as presence/absence and should not be used for density analysis.

Usage

bird_convert.distance(df)

Arguments

df	A dataframe object

Value

Point Count data with distance.bin column as numeric.

Examples

data = bird_convert.distance(data)

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