getArea {rKIN}

Method to extract Niche Polygon Areas

Description

Extracts the polygon area for an rKIN object for each group and level.

Usage

getArea(estObj)

Arguments

estObj

List object created from estKIN, estMCP or estEllipse functions

Value

A data.frame() of polygon areas.

Author(s)

Shannon E. Albeke, Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, University of Wyoming

Examples

data("rodents")
#estimate niche overlap between 2 species using kernel UD
test.kin<- estKIN(data=rodents, x="Ave_C", y="Ave_N", group="Species",
                 levels=c(50, 75, 95), scaler=2)
#determine polygon sizes/areas
kin.area<- getArea(test.kin)