ResourceSelection (version 0.1-5)

goats: Mountain Goats Data Set

Description

GPS collar data of mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) from Lele and Keim (2006).

Usage

data(goats)

source

Ecological Archives E087-181-S1, http://www.esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E087/181/

Details

Mountain goat telemetry data were collected in the Coast Mountains of northwest British Columbia, Canada, as described in Lele and Keim (2006).

References

Lele, S. R. & Keim, J. L. (2006) Weighted distributions and estimation of resource selection probability functions. Ecology 87, 3021--3028.

Examples

data(goats)
str(goats)
summary(goats)

goats$exp.HLI <- exp(goats$HLI)
goats$sin.SLOPE <- sin(pi * goats$SLOPE / 180)
goats$ELEVATION <- scale(goats$ELEVATION)
goats$ET <- scale(goats$ET)
goats$TASP <- scale(goats$TASP)
summary(m1 <- rspf(STATUS ~ TASP + sin.SLOPE + ELEVATION, goats, B = 99))
summary(m2 <- rspf(STATUS ~ TASP + ELEVATION, goats, B = 99))
AIC(m1, m2)
plot(m1)