woodpecker {popbio}

Survirvorship data for adult and juvenile Acorn Woodpeckers

Description

Number of juvenile and adult Acorn Woodpeckers and survival in the Water Canyon, New Mexico population, reconstructed from Stacey and Taper (1992).

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 18 rows and 4 columns

rate

Adult or juvenile stage

year

Year

start

Total number of starting individuals

surv

Number surviving to spring

Source

Stacey, P.B., and M. Taper. 1992. Environmental variation and the persistence of small populations. Ecological Applications 2: 18-29.

References

Akcakaya, H. R. 2002. Estimating the variance of survival rates and fecundities. Animal Conservation 5: 333-336. Kendall, B. E. 1998. Estimating the magnitude of environmental stochasticity in survivorship data. Ecological Applications 8(1): 184-193.

See Also

Kendall and varEst

Examples

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x <- subset(woodpecker, rate == "adult")
plot(x$year, x$start,
  type = "o", pch = 16,
  ylab = "Number of adults", xlab = "Year",
  main = "Acorn Woodpeckers in Water Canyon"
)
## stage-specific survival rate
x <- aggregate(
  list(Nstart = woodpecker$start, Nsurv = woodpecker$surv),
  list(stage = woodpecker$rate), sum
)
x$survival <- x[, 3] / x[, 2]
x