Numbers of sightings of different species of seabirds by year 1986 -
2005 at E. Sitkalidak, Uganik, Uyak, and W. Sitkalidak by people
affiliated with the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.
Usage
data(seabird)
Format
A data frame with 3793 observations on the following 22 variables.
integer count of the numbers of sightings of each species by
transect by year
Year
integer year, 1986 - 2005
Site
Integer codes for Bay: 10 = Uyak, 20 = Uganik, 60 =
E. Sitkalidak, 70 = W. Sitkalidak
Transect
Integer code (101 - 749) for the specific plot of ground observed
Temp
a numeric vector
ObservCond
a factor with levels Average, Excellent,
Fair, Good, and Ideal.
Bay
a factor with levels E. SitkalidakUganikUyakW. Sitkalidak
ObservCondFactor3
a factor with levels ExcellentIdeal,
FairAverage, and Good. These combine levels
from ObservCond.
Details
Data provided by the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge
Source
Zwiefelhofer, D., Reynolds, J. H., and Keim, M. (2008) Population
trends and annual density estimates for select wintering seabird
species on Kodiak Island, Alaska, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Technical Report,
no. 08-00x
References
Ramsay, James O., Hooker, Giles, and Graves, Spencer B. (2009)
Functional Data Analysis with R and Matlab, Springer, New York
(esp. ch. 10)