wildlifeDI: Calculate Indices of Dynamic Interaction for Wildlife Telemetry Data

Description

Dynamic interaction refers to spatial-temporal associations in the movements of two (or more) animals. This package provides tools for calculating a suite of indices used for quantifying dynamic interaction with wildlife telemetry data. For more information on each of the methods employed see the references within. The package draws heavily on the classes and methods developed in the 'adehabitat' packages.

The package wildlifeDI allows users to compute a number of currently available indices of dynamic interaction useful for wildlife telemetry studies. The currently available methods include:

• Prox - Proximity analyiss (Bertrand et al. 1996)

• Ca - Coefficient of Association (Bauman 1998)

• Don - Doncaster's measure of dynamic interaction (Doncaster 1990)

• Lixn - Minta's measures of spatial-temporal interaction (Minta 1992)

• Cs - Coefficient of Sociality (Kenward et al. 1993)

• HAI - Half-weight Association Index (Atwood and Weeks Jr. 2003)

• Cr - Correlation coefficient (Shirabe 2006)

• DI - Dynamic interaction index (Long and Nelson 2013)

• IAB - Interaction statistic (Benhamou et al. 2014)

The package wildlifeDI also provides useful functionality for identifying which fixes are temporally simultaneous, required for many of the above methods, using the function GetSimultaneous, along with other functions for exploring spatial-temporal interactions patterns in wildlife telemetry data.

When citing this package please cite the paper Long et al. (2014)

Details

The functions in wildlifeDI utilize the ltraj objects from the package adehabitat (Calenge 2006). For more information on objects of this type see help(ltraj).

Author(s)

Jed Long

References

Calenge, C. (2006) The package "adehabitat" for the R software: A tool for hte analysis of space and habitat use by animals. Ecological Modelling, 197: 516-519.

Long, J.A., Nelson, T.A., Webb, S.L., Gee, K.L. (2014) A critical examination of indices of dynamic interaction for wildlife telemetry data. Journal of Animal Ecology, 83: 1216:1233.

(see individual functions for other references)

Results