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selectapref (version 0.1.2)

Analysis of Field and Laboratory Foraging

Description

Provides indices such as Manly's alpha, foraging ratio, and Ivlev's selectivity to allow for analysis of dietary selectivity and preference. Can accommodate multiple experimental designs such as constant prey number of prey depletion. Please contact the package maintainer with any publications making use of this package in an effort to maintain a repository of dietary selections studies.

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install.packages('selectapref')

Monthly Downloads

131

Version

0.1.2

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Jason Richardson

Last Published

February 8th, 2020

Functions in selectapref (0.1.2)

FR

Forage Ratio (Strauss 1979).
manlysalpha

Manly's alpha feeding preference (Chesson 1978). Returns Manly'as alpha index from vectors of initial and final food item counts.
ivlev

Ivlev's electivity (Ivlev 1961). Returns Ivlev's electivity index from vectors of consumed and available food items.