Blossom (version 1.3)

prefer: Habitat preference data for pheasants

Description

Habitat preference data for 13 pheasants using 5 cover types (Aebischer et al. 1993) for randomized block analyses.

Usage

data(prefer)

docType

data

source

Aebischer, N.J., P. A. Robertson, and R.E. Kenward. 1993. Compositional analysis of habitat use from animal radio-tracking data. Ecology 74, 1313--1323.

Details

In the randomized block analysis of this data, bird is the blocking factor and use is the treatment groups. Note the available habitat (use = 0) percentages are assumed constant across all birds.

Examples

str(prefer)
  boxplot(prefer[1:13,1:5],main = "Percent habitat in the home range of 13 ring-necked pheasants")
     mtext("red dots indicate percent habitat available for each land cover class")
     points(seq(1:5),prefer[14,1:5],cex = 2,pch = 21,bg = "red")