vultures

R package of utility functions for working with vulture data

Modeling the impact of multiple mortality on vulture social networks. Started in Spring 2022 for Jamie Lloyd-Smith's C219B Ecological Modeling course.

How frequently do griffon vultures switch roosts?

Demonstrating how to use the vultureUtils package, and various tests. These should eventually become package vignettes.

What happens when a whole bunch of vultures die at once?

Random shuffling of vulture roosts to see if they have preferences

Using clustering to define roost sites

Survival analysis of Egyptian Vultures tracked with satellite transmitters from the western Palaearctic. Big collaboration led by Evan Buechley, Ron Efrat, and Steffen Oppel. This repository contains the final code and data to replicate analyses presented in the following article:

Relationship between movement metrics and social position

NBDA analyses of social information in vultures

Analysis code for temporal dynamics in vulture social networks

Code and postprocessing for estimating Gyps vulture survival in eastern Africa using multi-event capture-recapture models.

Initial exploration of vulture data