sikadeer {Distance}

Sika deer pellet data from southern Scotland

Description

Because sika deer spend most of their time in woodland areas, abundance estimates are based on pellet group counts. Line transect methods were applied to estimate deer pellet group density by geographic block.

Format

A data.frame with 1923 rows and 11 variables.

• Region.Label stratum labels

• Area size (ha) of each stratum

• Sample.Label transect labels

• Defecation.rate rate of dung production per individual per day

• Defecation.rate.SE variability in defecation rate

• Decay.rate time (days) for dung to become undetectable

• Decay.rate.SE variability in decay rate

• Effort transect length (km)

• object object ID

• distance perpendicular distance (cm)

• Study.Area study area name

Details

Data presented here are from the Peebleshire portion of the study described by Marques et al. (2001).

References

Marques, F.F.C., S.T. Buckland, D. Goffin, C.E. Dixon, D.L. Borchers, B.A. Mayle, and A.J. Peace. (2001). Estimating deer abundance from line transect surveys of dung: sika deer in southern Scotland. Journal of Applied Ecology 38 (2): 349–363. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00584.x