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birds: Habitat Suitability for Breeding Bird Communities

Description

Environmental variables and bird counts for identifying suitable bird habitats

Usage

data("birds")

source

Joerg Mueller (2005). Forest structures as key factor for beetle and bird communities in beech forests. PhD thesis, Munich University of Technology. http://mediatum.ub.tum.de

Details

Counts of breeding bird communities collected at 258 observation plots in a northern Bavarian forest district are the response variable of interest. Along with the number of birds in two structural gilds, 6 covariates are given here and one is interested in quantifying their impact on habitat suitability.

References

Thomas Kneib and Joerg Mueller and Torsten Hothorn (2008), Spatial smoothing techniques for the assessment of habitat suitability, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 15(3), 343--364.