abmi.data: ABMI Bird Counts and Site Capabilities from 2007

In abmiOld: Data Processing and Analysis for the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute

Description

Raw breeding bird and site capability data (2007) from the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute.

Usage

data(abmi.data)

Format

The format of raw breeding bird (abmi.data$birdcount) data is (dots are due to spaces and special characters in the original *.csv left unchanged):

Rotation Reference describing when data was collected at a broad level (i.e. Prototype, Rotation 1).

ABMI.Site Reference number given to each ABMI data collection site.

Year Collection year.

Field.Date Day, month, and year data was collected.

Field.Crew.Member.s. Initials for the field technicians collecting the field data.

Identification.Date Day, month, and year data was analyzed by specialist.

Identification.Analyst Initials for the technicians/specialists identifying the specimens.

Point.Count.Station Location where site capability information was recorded. There are 9 point count stations established per ABMI site with No. 1 being site centre and the remainder of the stations arranged around site centre at 300 m intervals.

Wind.Conditions Estimate of wind conditions on a scale of 0–5.

Precipitation Classification for precipitation conditions in 5 categories.

Start.of.Point.Count...24.hour.clock. Time of day recording was started.

End.of.Point.Count..24.hr.clock. Time of day recording was finished.

Common.Name Common name of bird species detected during point counts.

Scientific.Name Scientific name of bird species detected during point counts.

Taxonomic.Resolution Resolution to which bird species was identified (e.g. Family, Genus, Species etc.).

Unique.Taxonomic.Identification.Number Globally unique identifier of bird species detected during point count. Unique taxonomic identifiers are generally taken from the International Taxonomic Information System (ITIS; http://www.itis.gov/).

Time.First.Detected..seconds. Approximate time the bird analyst first detects a bird species from the recording; listed in 10-second intervals.

Interval.1..0.200.seconds. First time interval of the 10-minute point count (0-200 seconds) when bird species are detected and identified.

Interval.2..201.400.seconds. Middle time interval of the 10-minute point count (201-400 seconds) when bird species are detected or re-detected.

Interval.3..401.600.seconds. Last time interval of the 10-minute point count (401-600 seconds) when bird species are detected or re-detected.

Behaviour Classification given to each species detection (if possible).

Tally Number of individuals from each bird species that were counted within a 150 m radius of the point count station. This variable only applies to point count stations that fall within waterbodies.

The format of the site capability (abmi.data$sitecap) data is (dots are due to spaces and special characters in the original *.csv left unchanged):

Rotation Reference describing when data was collected at a broad level (i.e. Prototype, Rotation 1).

ABMI.Site Reference number given to each ABMI data collection site.

Year Collection year.

Field.Date Day, month, and year data was collected.

Field.Crew.Member.s. Initials for the field technicians collecting the field data.

Point.Count.Station Location where site capability information was recorded. There are 9 point count stations established per ABMI site with No. 1 being site centre and the remainder of the stations arranged around site centre at 300 m intervals.

Primary.Secondary.Ecological.Site.Classification Indicates whether the ecological site classification corresponds to a current primary, current secondary, historical primary or historical secondary classification.

Ecological.Site.Classification Ecological site classification.

Ecosite...Nutrient.Moisture.Code Nutrient and moisture code for the ecological site classification of a vegetated site based on the dominant vegetation community that is present.

Ecosite...Tree.Species.Modifier At every vegetation sampling location, the tree species modifier is used to classify the site if trees are present and is combined with the moisture/nutrient category to give an ecological site classification.

Ecosite..Structural.Stage.Community The general structural stage community being described including: tree dominated ecosites; non-tree dominated ecosites; open water dominated ecosites.

Ecosite...Structural.Stage Describes the structure stage of the ecosite; determined after the ecological-site type has been designated i.e. the nutrient/moisture code designation and tree species modifer.

Percent.Area.of.Ecological.Site.Classification Percent of the area surrounding the ABMI site/point count station described by the primary and secondary ecological site classification (10 percent increments).

Details

Original source files were RAW_T_BirdCounts63451.csv and RAW_T_SiteCapability63352.csv. The derived binary file contains only the data for the year 2007.

For more details (exact meaning of different entries) see terrestrial ABMI guide downloadable with the datasets from the website.

Source

Raw breeding bird and site capability data (2007) from the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute was used, in whole, to create this product. More information on the Institute can be found at: http://www.abmi.ca/

References

References on methodology: http://www.abmi.ca/

Examples

data(abmi.data)
str(abmi.data$birdcount)
str(abmi.data$sitecap)

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