Data Sets and Functions Accompagning the Book Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS and Stan

Description

Data sets and functions accompagning the book Bayesian data analysis in ecology using linear models with R, BUGS and STAN

Details

See book

Author(s)

Fraenzi Korner-Nievergelt

Maintainer: Please, complain to <fraenzi.korner@oikostat.ch>

References

Korner-Nievergelt et al. book

Calculates AIC-weights from a vector of AIC values

Description

Calculates AIC-weights from a vector of AIC values

Usage

AICweights(AIC_values)

Arguments

Value

a vector of model weights

Note

The function uses the function AICc from the package MuMIn.

Author(s)

F. Korner

References

Burnham, KP and Anderson DR (2002) Model selection and multimodel inference, a practical information-theoretic approach. Springer, New York

Examples

AICweights(c(325, 322, 330))

Watanabe-Akaike or widely applicable information criterion (WAIC)

Description

WAIC is a more fully Bayesian approach for estimating the out-of-sample expectation based on the log pointwise posterior predictive density

Usage

WAIC(mod, bsim = NA, nsim = 100)

Arguments

Details

We implemented the formulas given in Gelman et al. (2014) p 173. We hope that the implementation is correct! For hierarchical (mixed) models, the function gives the WAIC that measures predictive fit for the groups in the data (not for new groups). For hierarchical models the predictive fit could be measured for each level of the data. But this flexibility is not yet implemented in the WAIC function.

Value

Author(s)

F. Korner

References

Gelman, A., Carlin, J.B., Stern, H.S., Dunson, D.B., Vehtari, A. & Rubin, D.B. (2014) Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edn. CRC Press.

Watanabe, S. (2010) Applicable Information Criterion in Singular Learning Theory. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 11, 3571-3594.

Examples

data(pondfrog1)
mod1 <- glm(frog ~ ph + waterdepth + temp, data=pondfrog1, family=poisson)
mod2 <- glm(frog ~    + waterdepth + temp, data=pondfrog1, family=poisson)
mod3 <- glm(frog ~ ph +            + temp, data=pondfrog1, family=poisson)
mod4 <- glm(frog ~ ph + waterdepth       , data=pondfrog1, family=poisson)
WAIC(mod1)
WAIC(mod2)
WAIC(mod3)
WAIC(mod4)

Presence-absence data of Little owls in nest boxes

Description

The data contains presence-absence data of Little owls in nest boxes and elevation

Usage

data(anoctua)

Format

A data frame with 361 observations on the following 3 variables.

Id

nest box id

PA

indicator of Little owl presence

elevation

elevation (meters above sea level)

References

Gottschalk, T, Ekschmitt, K., Volters, V. (2011) Efficient placement of nest boxes for the little owl (Athene noctua). The Journal of Raptor Research 45: 1-14

Examples

data(anoctua)

Breeding success of Black storks in Latvia

Description

The data set contains number of nestlings in Blackstork (Ciconia nigra) nests.

Usage

data(blackstork)

Format

A data frame with 1130 observations on the following 3 variables.

nest

number of nest (nest id)

year

year

njuvs

number of nestlings

Source

The data is property of Maris Stradz. Attention, this is a non-random subselection of the data available. Please, contact Maris Stradz, if you have interest in the whole data set. mstrazds@latnet.lv

Examples

data(blackstork)

Produces QQ-plots of model residuals and of random normal samples

Description

The function produces 9 QQ-Plots. One is for the residuals of a model. 8 of them are for a simulated sample of equal size as the first one but simulated from a normal distribution using rnorm. The QQ-plot for the residuals is placed at a random place within the 9 plots. If you immediately can find the QQ-Plot of the residuals, these may not be normally distributed. The place of residuals is printed to the R-console.

Usage

compareqqnorm(mod)

Arguments

Value

a plot is produced and a number if given which indicates the position of the residuals (1-3 corresponds to the first row, 4-6 to the second row and 7-9 to the third row)

Author(s)

F. Korner

Examples

 y <- rexp(50)
 mod <- lm(y~1)
 compareqqnorm(mod)
 

stress hormone data of nestling barn owls which were either treated with a corticosterone-implant or with a placebo-implant as control

Description

The aim of the study was to look at the corticosterone increase due to the corticosterone implants. In each brood one or two nestlings were implanted with a corticosterone-implant and one or two nestlings with a placebo-implant (variable Implant). Blood samples were taken just before implantation (day 1), 2 and 20 days after implantation. In total we have 287 measurements of 151 individuals (variable Ring) of 54 broods.

Usage

data(cortbowl)

Format

A data frame with 287 observations on the following 6 variables.

Brood

id of brood

Ring

id of individual

Implant

a factor with levels C P; treatment: C=corticosterone treatment, P=placebo

Age

age of nestling in days

days

the day of the blood sample

totCort

corticosterole measurement in the blood sample

References

Almasi, B., Roulin, A., Jenni-Eiermann, S., Breuner, C.W., Jenni, L., 2009. Regulation of free corticosterone and CBG capacity under different environmental conditions in altricial nestlings. Gen. Comp. Endocr. 164, 117-124.

Examples

data(cortbowl)

Gives the x and y-coordinates of the cross point of two straight lines

Description

Calculates the x and y-coordinates of the cross point of two srtaight lines based on their intercepts and slopes

Usage

crosspoint(a1, b1, a2, b2)

Arguments

Value

a two column matrix with x- and y-coordinates of the cross point(s)

Author(s)

F. Korner

Examples

crosspoint(4, -0.1, 3, 0.1)

Measures dispersion in a glmer-model

Description

Computes the square root of the penalized residual sum of squares divided by n, the number of observations. This quantity may be interpreted as the dispersion factor of a binomial and Poisson mixed model. It may be used to correct standard errors of the model coefficients. But note that this post-hoc correction may be misleading because not all standard errors of the same model might need to be corrected by the same factor if the extra variance is explicitly included in the model structure (see e.g. Barry et al. 2003).

Usage

dispersion_glmer(modelglmer)

Arguments

Value

the square root of the scale parameter, according to recommendations by D. Bates, if its value is between 0.75 and 1.4, there may not be an overdispersion problem.

Such one number diagnostics should not be used as the only decision criterion. It can indicate overdispersion, but if it does not, it does not mean that the model fits the data well. Thorough residual analyses or posterior predictive model checking is still needed!

Author(s)

she or he is unfortunately unknown to us

References

This function has been posted on the R-helplist. It seems to have been written or motivated by D. Bates. Here is the URL, where we downloaded the function: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mixed-models/2011q1/015392.html

Barry SC, Brooks SP, Catchpole EA, Morgan BJT (2003) The analysis of ring-recovery data using random effects. Biometrics 59:54-65.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(swallowfarms)
dat <- swallowfarms
dat$colsize.z <- scale(dat$colsize)   # scaled values for better model convergence
dat$dung.z    <- scale(dat$dung)
dat$die <- dat$clutch - dat$fledge
mod <- glmer(cbind(fledge,die) ~ colsize.z + cow + dung.z + (1|farm) , data=dat, family="binomial")
dispersion_glmer(mod)

## End(Not run)

Hohenheim groundwater table experiment of Heinz Ellenberg

Description

Heinz Ellenberg's historically important work on changes in the abundances of a community of grass species growing along experimental gradients of water table depth has played an important role in helping to identify the hydrological niches of plant species in wet meadows. The dataset comprises measurements taken from two similar experiments conducted in 1952 and 1953.

Usage

data(ellenberg)

Format

A data frame with 264 observations on the following 29 variables.

Year

two levels: 1952 and 1953

Soil

two levels: Loam and Sand

Water

Average distance to groundwater in cm, 10 levels for 1952, 11 levels for 1953: (-5), 5, 20, 35, 50, 65, 80, 95, 110, 125, 140

Species

6 species in 1952 and 4 species in 1953. Species 1952: Poa palustris, Festuca pratensis, Alopecurus pratensis, Dactylis glomerata, Arrhenatherum elatius, Bromus erectus. Species 1953: Alopecurus pratensis, Dactylis glomerata, Arrhenatherum elatius, Bromus erectus.

Mi.g

Individual yield of dried biomass in g in monocultures

Yi.g

Individual yield of dried biomass in g in mixtures

Mono.area.m2

Area of the yields in monocultures, 0.383 m in year 1952, 0.5 m in year 1953

Mix.area.m2

Area of the yields in mixtures, 1.2 m in year 1952, 1.5 m in year 1953

Div

Species richness, 6 in year 1952, 4 in year 1953

Moi.g.m2

Individual monoculture yields in m2

Yoi.g.m2

Individual mixture yields in m2

Mo.g.m2

Moi.g.m2 averaged over species by year, soil type and water level

Yo.g.m2

Yoi.g.m2 summed over species by year, soil type and water level

RYoi

Individual relative yield observed (Yoi.g.m2/ Moi.g.m2)

RYo

RYoi summed over species by year, soil type and water level

Yei.g.m2

Individual expected yield in m2 (Moi.g.m2 * RYe)

Ye.g.m2

Yei.g.m2 summed over species by year, soil type and water level

RRYo

Rescaled relative yield observed (RYoi/RYo)

deltaRYoi

Difference between relative observed yield and rescaled relative observed yield (RYoi - RRYo)

deltaRYo

deltaRYoi summed over species by year, soil type and water level

RYe

Relative yield expected in mixtures (1/Div)

deltaRYe

Difference between the rescaled relative yield observed and relative yield expected (RRYo- RYe)

RYT

Relative yield total summed over species by year, soil type and water level

level

two levels: species and community

NE

Net Effect (Yo.g.m2 - Ye.g.m2)

TICE

Trait-Independent Complementarity Effect (Mo.g.m2 * deltaRYo * Div)

SE

Selection Effect (NE - TICE)

TDCE

Trait-Dependent Complementarity Effect ((Moi.g.m2 - Mo.g.m2) * (deltaRYoi - deltaRYo) summed over species by year, soil type and water level)

DE

Diversity effect (SE - TDCE)

Details

A detailed description of the data set can be found in the methods section of Hector et al. (2012).

Source

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043358

References

Ellenberg H (1953) Physiologisches und oekologisches Verhalten derselben Pflanzenarten. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 65: 350-361

Ellenberg H (1954) Ueber einige Fortschritte der kausalen Vegetationskunde. Plant Ecology 5/6: 199-211.

Lieth H, Ellenberg H (1958) Konkurrenz und Zuwanderung von Wiesenpflanzen. Ein Beitrag zum Problem der Entwicklung neu angelegten Gruenlands. Zeitschrift fuer Acker- und Pflanzenbau 106: 205-223.

Hector A, von Felten S, Hautier Y, Weilenmann M and Bruelheide H (2012) Effects of Dominance and Diversity on Productivity along Ellenberg's Experimental Water Table Gradients. PlosOne 7: e43358

Examples

data(ellenberg)

Counts of the number of frogs in a water body

Description

Counts of the number of frogs in ponds of the Canton Aargau, Switzerland.

Usage

data(frogs)

Format

A data frame with 481 observations on the following 10 variables.

count1

number of counted frogs during the first visit

count2

number of counted frogs uring the second visit

elevation

elevation, meters above sea level

year

year

fish

presence of fish (1 = present, 0 = absent)

waterarea

area of the water body in square meters

vegetation

indicator of vegetation (1 = vegetation present, 0 = no vegetation present)

pondid

name of the pond, corresponds to observation id

x

x coordinate

y

y coordinate

Details

The amphibian monitoring program started in 1999 and is mainly aimed to survey population trends of endangered amphibian species. Every year, about 30 water bodies in two or three randomly selected priority areas (out of ten priority areas of high amphibian diversity) are surveyed. Additionally, a random selection of water bodies that potentially are suitable for one of the endangered amphibian species but that do not belong to the priority areas were surveyed. Each water body is surveyed by single trained volunteer during two nocturnal visits per year. Volunteers recorded anurans by walking along the waters edge with precise rules for the duration of a survey taking account of the size of the surveyed water body and noting visual encounters and calls. As fare as possible, encountered individuals of the Pelophylax-complex were identified as Marsh Frog (Pelophylax ridibundus), Pool Frog (P. lessonaea) or hybrids (P. esculentus) based on morphological characteristics or based on their calls. In the given data set, however, these three taxa are lumped together.

Source

The data is provided by Isabelle Floess, Landschaft und Gewaesser, Kanton Aargau.

References

Schmidt, B. R., 2005: Monitoring the distribution of pond-breeding amphibians, when species are detected imperfectly. - Aquatic conservation: marine and freshwater ecosystems 15: 681-692.

Tanadini, L. G.; Schmidt, B. R., 2011: Population size influences amphibian detection probability: implications for biodiversity monitoring programs. - Plos One 6: e28244.

Examples

data(frogs)

Function to plot history (trace) plots of the Markov chains obtained by STAN or by WinBUGS.

Description

Draws history (trace) plots for the Markov chains in a STAN- or WinBUGS-object

Usage

historyplot(fit, parameter)

Arguments

Details

can only handly one or two dimensional parameters up to now.

Value

gives a plot

Author(s)

Fraenzi Korner

Examples

## Not run: 
fit <- stan(....)
historyplot(fit, parameter="alpha")

## End(Not run)

Bayesian leave-one-out cross-validation

Description

Bayesian leave-one-out cross-validation based on the log pointwise predictive density

Usage

loo.cv(mod, nsim = 100, bias.corr = FALSE)

Arguments

Details

For details see Gelman et al. (2014) p 175

Value

Author(s)

F. Korner

References

Gelman A, Carlin JB, Stern HS, Dunson DB, Vehtari A and Rubin DB (2014) Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edn. CRC Press.

See Also

ocv

Examples

## Not run: 
x <- runif(20)
y <- 2+0.5*x+rnorm(20, 0, 1)
mod <- lm(y~x)
loo.cv(mod, bias.corr=TRUE)  # increase nsim!!
  
## End(Not run)
  

Simulated set of correlated variables

Description

Simulated set of correlated variables. The code for the simulation is given in the details section.

Usage

data("mdat")

Format

A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 variables.

y

a numeric vector

x1

a numeric vector

x2

a numeric vector

x3

a numeric vector

x4

a numeric vector

x5

a numeric vector

Details

# data simulation library(MASS) Sigma <- matrix(c(1, -0.5, -0.8, -0.5, -0.9, -0.5, 1, 0.5, 0.3, 0.5, -0.8, 0.5, 1, 0.2, 0.5, -0.5, 0.3, 0.2, 1, 0.5, -0.9, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1), ncol=5, byrow=TRUE) set.seed(242) X <-mvrnorm(n = 100, mu=runif(5, -1,1), Sigma=Sigma)

b_true <- c(3, 1.3, -0.5, 0.9, -1.3, 0.4) y_hat <- cbind(1, X) y <- y_hat + rnorm(100) dat <- data.frame(y=y, x1=X[,1], x2=X[,2], x3=X[,3], x4=X[,4], x5=X[,5]) # end of data simulation —————————————————————

Examples

data(mdat)

Nightingale territory occupancy data

Description

Territory occupancy data indicating whether a Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) was observed (1; 0 otherwise) in a given territory, year and during a given visit.

Usage

data(nightingales)

Format

Three-dimensian array containing 0 (i.e. not observed) and 1 (observed) with the three dimensions referring to

1st dimension

the 1:55 territories

2nd dimension

the 1:10 study years

3rd dimension

the 1:8 visits

Source

The data is provided by PD Dr. Valentin Amrhein.

References

Roth T; Amrhein V (2010) Estimating individual survival using territory occupancy data on unmarked animals. Journal of Applied Ecology 47: 386-392.

Examples

data(nightingales)

Ordinary cross validation score

Description

Sum of squared differences between the out-of-data prediction and the observation for the leave-one-out cross validation for linear models with normal error structure (lm-objects)

Usage

ocv(mod)

Arguments

Value

the ordinary cross validation score

Author(s)

F. Korner

References

e.g. Wood, SN (2006) Generalized Additive Models, An Introduction with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC, London.

Examples

data(pondfrog1)
mod1 <- lm(log(frog+1)~ph, data=pondfrog1)
mod2 <- lm(log(frog+1)~waterdepth, data=pondfrog1)
ocv(mod1)
ocv(mod2)

Number of migrating Great tits

Description

Counts of Great tits (Parus major) observed at the mountain pass Ulmethoechi (BL, Switzerland) between 1982 and 2007 during fall migration.

Usage

data(parusmajor)

Format

A data frame with 434 observations on the following 3 variables.

year

year

julian

day of the year

count

number of individuals counted

References

Korner-Nievergelt F, Korner-Nievergelt P, Baader E, Fischer L, Schaffner W, Kestenholz M (2007) Jahres- und tageszeitliches Auftreten von Singvoegeln auf dem Herbstzug im Jura (Ulmethoechi, Kanton Basel-Landschaft). Der Ornithologische Beobachter 104: 101-130.

Examples

data(parusmajor)

The data contain morphological measurements taken from museum skins of Coal tits (Periparus ater)

Description

The data is part of the study by Korner-Nievergelt & Leisler (2004) Morphological convergence in conifer-dwelling passerines. Journal of Ornithology 145: 245-255.

Usage

data(periparusater)

Format

A data frame with 28 observations on the following 6 variables.

country

country of origin of the individual

age

numeric code for age categories as defined by www.euring.org, 3 = hatching year, 4 = not hatching year, 5 = after hatching year, 0 = missing

sex

numeric code for sex as defined by www.euring.org, 1 = male, 2 = female, 0 = missing

weight

body mass in g

P8

length of primary 8 in mm. Primary 8 is the third outermost wing feather often building the wing tip.

wing

wing length in mm

References

Korner-Nievergelt & Leisler (2004) Morphological convergence in conifer-dwelling passerines. Journal of Ornithology 145: 245-255.

Examples

data(periparusater)

Fake Data of the Numbers of Frogs in Ponds

Description

The data contain frog population sizes in different ponds with some characteristics of ponds. The data is simulated, thus the "true" model is known. The data can serve to play with different methods for doing model selection.

Usage

data(pondfrog)

Format

A data frame with 130 observations on the following 9 variables.

frog

a numeric vector

fish

a numeric vector

vegdensity

a numeric vector

ph

a numeric vector

surfacearea

a numeric vector

waterdepth

a numeric vector

region

a factor with levels north south

height

a numeric vector

temp

a numeric vector

Details

The r-code for producing the pondfrog data is

set.seed(196453) n <- 130 # sample size height <- sample(150:1500,n) region <- sample(c("south", "north"), n, replace=TRUE, prob=c(0.2, 0.8)) waterdepth <- sample(seq(0.3, 5.5, by=0.01), n) surfacearea <- sample(seq(3, 150), n) temp <- 20 - 0.01*height + 0.5*as.numeric(region=="south") -0.005*waterdepth + 0.1*sqrt(surfacearea) +rnorm(n, 0, 1.5) ph <- 7.5 - 0.8 * as.numeric(region=="south") + rnorm(n, 0, 0.2) vegdensity.logitp <- -3.5+0.3*ph + 0.2*temp+rnorm(n,0,1) vegdensity.p <- plogis(vegdensity.logitp) vegdensity <- rbinom(n, 1, prob=vegdensity.p) fish.logitp <- -4+0.3*ph + 0.2*waterdepth+rnorm(n,0,1) fish.p <- plogis(fish.logitp) fish <- rbinom(n, 1, prob=fish.p) frog.mu <- exp(3.5 + 0.2*(temp-mean(temp)) +0.2*(ph-mean(ph)) + 0.1*(ph-mean(ph))^2 - 0.3*(waterdepth-mean(waterdepth)) - 0.5 * fish + 0.5*fish*vegdensity) frog <- rpois(n, lambda=frog.mu)

dat <- data.frame(frog=frog, fish=fish, vegdensity=vegdensity, ph=ph, surfacearea=surfacearea, waterdepth=waterdepth, region=region, height=height, temp=temp)

Thus, the "true" model for the number of pondfrog (frog) is a Poisson model with log-link function and the following linear predictor:

3.5 + 0.2*(temp-mean(temp)) +0.2*(ph-mean(ph)) + 0.1*(ph-mean(ph))^2 - 0.3*(waterdepth-mean(waterdepth)) - 0.5 * fish + 0.5*fish*vegdensity

Examples

data(pondfrog)
pairs(pondfrog)

Fake Data: Number of Frogs in Ponds

Description

Simulated data of which the true model is known. Can be used to play with model selection. This is a simplified version of the pondfrog -example (see pondfrog)

Usage

data(pondfrog1)

Format

A data frame with 130 observations on the following 4 variables.

frog

a numeric vector

ph

a numeric vector

waterdepth

a numeric vector

temp

a numeric vector

Details

The code used to simulate the data was: set.seed(333) frog.mu <- exp(3.5 + 0.2*(temp-mean(temp))+0.1*(ph-mean(ph)) - 0.3*(waterdepth-mean(waterdepth)) ) frog <- rpois(n, lambda=frog.mu)

For the simulation of the explanatory variables, see help file for the pondfrog data

Examples

data(pondfrog1)
pairs(pondfrog1)

Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) counts

Description

Counts of Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) breeding pairs between 1993-1996 in a small part of Switzerland.

Usage

data(redstart)

Format

Data frame with 342 observations and the following 5 columns:

counts

count of Common Redstart breeding pairs in each 1 km2 plot

x

x-coordinate in CH1903-LV03 (EPSG: 21781)

y

y-coordinate in CH1903-LV03 (EPSG: 21781)

elevation

average elevation in m.

forests

forest cover

Source

Swiss Breeding Bird Atlas 1993-1996 (Swiss Ornithological Institute): http://www.vogelwarte.ch

References

Schmid H., Luder R., Naef-Daenzer B., Graf R., Zbinden N. (1998) Schweizer Brutvogelatlas. Verbreitung der Brutvoegel in der Schweiz und im Fuerstentum Liechstenchstein 1993-1996. Schweizerische Vogelwarte, Sempach.

Examples

data(redstart)

Survival data of tree sprouts

Description

Number of tree sprouts that survived a management fire and the time since the last fire.

Usage

data(resprouts)

Format

A data frame with 41 observations on the following 4 variables.

treatment

time since last fire in months

plot_ID

plot name

pre

number of tree sprouts before the fire

post

number of tree sprouts after the fire, survivors

References

Walters, G (2012) Customary fire regimes and vegetation structurein Gabon's Bateke Plateaux. Human Ecology 40: 943-955

Examples

data(resprouts)

Roosting site use by little owls

Description

Locations of roosting sites of little owls obtained by telemetry data

Usage

data(roostingsiteuse)

Format

A data frame with 42 observations on the following 5 variables.

roosting.loc

a factor with 4 levels

roostingnum

roosting site number

temp

ambient temperature in degree celsius

familynum

number of the family

indnum

number of the individual

References

Bock, A., Naef-Daenzer, B., Keil, H., Korner-Nievergelt, F., Perrig, M., Grueebler, M. U. (2013) Roost site selection by Little Owls Athene noctua in relation to environmental conditions and life history stages. Ibis 155: 847-856.

Examples

data(roostingsiteuse)

Sperm depletion data in a hermaphrodite sea slug

Description

Data of experiment 1 in Anthes et al. (2014) to measure the depletion rate of sperms in a hermaphrodite sea slug.

Usage

data(spermdepletion)

Format

A data frame with 264 observations on the following 6 variables.

donor

the id of the focal sperm donor

matingN

the number of the mating in the sequences of matings

totalsperm

number of sperms transferred to the receiver

MeanPairSize

mean of the weight of the two slugs of the pair

RelativeDonorSize

a relative size measurement of the donor, see Anthes et al. (2014)

Dec_duration

duration of mating in decimal minutes

References

Anthes N, Werminghausen J, Lange R (2014) Large donors transfer more sperm, but depletion is faster in a promiscuous hermaphrodite. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 477-483.

Examples

data(spermdepletion)

Telemetry data of Barn swallow fledglings

Description

Capture-histories (obtained by radio-telemetry) of Barn swallows during their first 17 days after fledging. To simplify the example (for didactical reasons), only the first broods were selected.

Usage

data(survival_swallows)

Format

The format is: List of 8 $ CH : int [1:322, 1:18] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... capture histories of 322 individuals $ I : int 322, number of individuals $ K : int 18, capture occations (inclusive the first capture) $ carez : num [1:322], covariate, intensity of care by the parents $ year : num [1:322] index of year (4 years study) $ agec : num [1:18] covariate age of the fledglings, centered $ family: num [1:322] index of the family (group the individuals belong to) $ nfam : num 72, number of families

Details

Day 0 is the day of marking the individuals.

Source

The data has been collected by Martin Grueebler and Beat Naef-Daenzer.

Grueebler, M.U., Naef-Daenzer, B. 2008: Fitness consequences of pre- and post-fledging timing decicions in a double-brooded passerins. Ecology 89:2736-2745.

Grueebler, M.U., Naef-Daenzer, B. 2010: Survival benefits of post-fledging care: experimental approach to a critical part of avian reproductivve strategies. J. Anim. Ecol. 79:334-341.

Examples

data(survival_swallows)

Number of fledged Barn Swallows per nest

Description

This is an adapted a data set from Grueebler et al. (2010) on Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica nestling survival (we have selected a non-random sample to be able to fit a simple model; hence, the results do not add unbiased knowledge about the swallow biology!). For 63 swallow broods we know the clutch size and the number of the nestlings that fledged. The broods came from 51 farms, thus some farms had more than one brood. There are three predictors measured at the level of the farm: colony size (the number of swallow broods on that farm), cow (whether there are cows on the farm or not), and dungheap (the number of dungheaps within 500 m of the farm).

Usage

data(swallowfarms)

Format

A data frame with 63 observations on the following 6 variables.

farm

farm id

colsize

number of swallow broods on the farm

cow

indicator of cows on the farm

dung

number of dungheaps on the farm

clutch

clutch size

fledge

number of nestlings that survived to fledging

References

Grueebler MU, Korner-Nievergelt F, von Hirschheydt J (2010) The reproductive benefits of livestock farming in barn swallows Hirundo rustica: quality of nest site or foraging habitat? Journal of Applied Ecology 47:1340-1347

Examples

data(swallowfarms)

Data set with number of nesting swallows per barn

Description

Number of barn swallows and house martins nesting per barn with some characteristics of the barn.

Usage

data(swallows)

Format

A data frame with 27 observations on the following 6 variables.

farm

indicator of the farm

nhirrus

number of active barn swallow nests

ndelurb

number of active house martin nests

ncows

number of cows in the barn

nesting_aid

a factor with levels artif_nest=artificial nests were put up, both both artificial nests and supporting material has been provided, none nothing has been done to support swallow nesting, support supporting material has been provided

ndaysempty

number of days the barn was empty, i.e. the cows have been on the meadow.

References

Willi T, Korner-Nievergelt F, Grueebler MU (2011) Rauchschwalben Hirundo rustica brauchen Nutztiere, Mehlschwalben Delichon urbicum Nisthilfen. Der Ornithologische Beobachter 108: 215-224

Examples

data(swallows)

Draw prior, data and posterior for a known variance normal distribution example

Description

The function draws a normal prior distribution, the data and the posterior distribution in one plot. It serves as a tool to explore the influence of different prior on a hypotehtical set of normally distributed data

Usage

triplot.normal.knownvariance(theta.data, variance.known, n, prior.theta, prior.variance, 
legend = TRUE, ylim = c(0, max(yposterior)), legend.bty="n")

Arguments

Author(s)

Fraenzi Korner-Nievergelt

References

Gelman, A., J. B. Carlin, H. S. Stern and D. B. Rubin (2004). Bayesian Data Analysis. New York, Chapman & Hall/CRC.

See Also

dnorm

Examples

triplot.normal.knownvariance(theta.data=10, n=20, variance.known=5, 
   prior.theta=0, prior.variance=100) 

Territory numbers of Whitethroat in wildflowerfields

Description

Number of territories of Whitethroat in wildflowerfields of different ages. The data has been collected by J-L Zollinger.

Usage

data(wildflowerfields)

Format

A data frame with 136 observations on the following 8 variables.

field

field id

year

year

age

age of the wildflower field in years

bp

number of territories of whitethroats Sylvia communis

X

x-coordinate

Y

y-coordinate

size

area of the field in ares (a, 10 x 10 m)

Nspec

number of species

References

Zollinger J-L, Birrer S, Zbinden N, Korner-Nievergelt F (2013) The optimal age of sown field margins for breeding farmland birds. Ibis 155: 779-791

Examples

data(wildflowerfields)

Growth rate data of Barn owl nestlings and corticosterone

Description

The data contains wing length measurements of Barn owl nestlings that were either treated with a corticosterone or a placebo implant.

Usage

data(wingbowl)

Format

A data frame with 209 observations on the following 7 variables.

Brood

brood id

Ring

individual id

Age1

age of the individual at the day it received the implant, in days

Implant

type of implant: C = corticosterone, P = placebo

days

number of days after the implant

Age

age of the nestling at the day of the wing length measurement, in days

Wing

wing length measurement in mm

References

AlmaisB, Roulin A, Korner-Nievergelt F, Jenni-Eiermann S, Jenni L (2012) Coloration signals the ability to cope with elevated stress hormones: effects of corticosterone on growth of barn owls are associated with melanism. JOurnal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 1189-1199

Examples

data(wingbowl)

Site-occupancy data for Yellow-bellied toads

Description

Site-occupancy data indicating whether Yellow-bellied toads (Bombina variegata) were observed (1; 0 otherwise) in a given site and during a given visit.

Usage

data(yellow_bellied_toad)

Format

List with 2 items

y

Two-dimensional matrix with the observed absence (0) or presence (1) of Yellow-bellied toads for a given territory (rows) and visit (columns).

DAY

integer vector containing the day of the year for each observation.

Source

The data is provided by Isabelle Floess, Landschaft und Gewaesser, Kanton Aargau.

Examples

data(yellow_bellied_toad)