Description

Numbers of sightings of different species of seabirds by year 1986 - 2005 at E. Sitkalidak, Uganik, Uyak, and W. Sitkalidak by people affiliated with the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

Usage

Format

A data frame with 3793 observations on the following 22 variables.

BAGO, BLSC, COME, COMU, CORM, HADU, HOGR, LOON, MAMU, OLDS, PIGU, RBME, RNGR, SUSC, WWSC

integer count of the numbers of sightings of each species by transect by year

Year

integer year, 1986 - 2005

Site

Integer codes for Bay: 10 = Uyak, 20 = Uganik, 60 = E. Sitkalidak, 70 = W. Sitkalidak

Transect

Integer code (101 - 749) for the specific plot of ground observed

Temp

a numeric vector

ObservCond

a factor with levels Average, Excellent, Fair, Good, and Ideal.

Bay

a factor with levels E. Sitkalidak Uganik Uyak W. Sitkalidak

ObservCondFactor3

a factor with levels ExcellentIdeal, FairAverage, and Good. These combine levels from ObservCond.

Details

Data provided by the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge

Source

Zwiefelhofer, D., Reynolds, J. H., and Keim, M. (2008) Population trends and annual density estimates for select wintering seabird species on Kodiak Island, Alaska, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Technical Report, no. 08-00x

References

Ramsay, James O., Hooker, Giles, and Graves, Spencer B. (2009) Functional Data Analysis with R and Matlab, Springer, New York (esp. ch. 10)

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