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panda: Giant panda locations

Description

A data frame containing giant panda location data

Usage

data(panda)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 147 observations on the following 4 variables.

time

Elapsed time in minutes

x

x-coordinate (UTM easting in meters)

y

y-coordinate (UTM northing in meters)

z

z-coordinate (height above sea level in meters)

Details

GPS location data acquired from a wild giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) tracked by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and San Diego Zoo Global in Foping National Nature Reserve, China during August 2008 (Zhang et. al. 2012).

References

Zhang, Z., Sheppard, J.K., Swaisgood, R.R., Wang, G., Nie, Y., Wei, W., Zhao, N. & Wei, F. (2014). Ecological Scale and Seasonal Heterogeneity in the Spatial Behaviors of Giant Pandas. Integrative Zoology, 9: 46-60.

Examples

Run this code
data(panda)
head(panda, 30)

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