garamba {popbayes}

African mammals survey in the Garamba National Park

Description

This dataset contains individual counts of 10 African mammal species in the Garamba National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1976 to 2017.

Usage

garamba

Format

A data.frame with 141 rows (counts) and the following 8 variables:

location

the location of the survey (Garamba)

species

the binomial name of the species

date

the date of the survey

stat_method

the method used to estimate individuals counts. One of T (total counts), G (guesstimate), and S (sampling counts)

field_method

the field method used to collect data. One of A (aerial counts), and G (ground counts)

count

number of individuals

lower_ci

lower boundary of the 95% confidence interval of the counts (only for sampling counts)

upper_ci

upper boundary of the 95% confidence interval of the counts (only for sampling counts)

pref_field_method

the preferred field method of the species. One of A for Aerial counts, and G for Ground counts

conversion_A2G

the conversion multiplicative factor (corresponding to the detectability category) used to convert aerial to ground counts

rmax

the maximum population growth rate

References

Hillman Smith K & Kalpers J (2015) Garamba Conservation in Peace & War. Hillman Smith publisher, 448pp. ISBN: 9789966185105.
Monico M (2014) Aerial Survey Report March 2014 - Garamba National Park, DRC. African Parks Network/ICCN/Pan-African Elephant Aerial Survey, 42pp.
Spies K et al. (2017) Aerial Survey Report April 2017 - Garamba National Park, DRC. African Parks Network/EU/ICCN. 38pp.

Examples

data("garamba")
head(garamba, 30)