Part 14 of the Space-Use and Behavioral State Estimation Workshop.
This shows a live-coding exercise on estimating space-use via kernel density estimation (KDE) with a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) satellite telemetry dataset. All coding is performed using the R programming language within the RStudio IDE, where KDE is used to estimate both population- and individual-level space-use. The reference and plug-in bandwidth methods are used to compare their effects on the resulting space-use estimates. Calculation of utilization distributions (UDs) via KDE is performed using the {amt} R package, developed by Johannes Signer, John Fieberg, and Tal Avgar. Additional details about the workshop and associated materials can be found at the workshop website https://joshcullen.github.io/Behavior_and_SpaceUse_Workshop/.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers 2126583 and 1904818. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
