Modelling Population Dynamics

Computer Code and data by chapter for:

Newman, K., Buckland, S.T., Morgan, B.J.T., King, R., Borchers, D.L., Cole, D., Besbeas, P., Gimenez, O., Thomas, L. 2014. Modelling Population Dynamics.

Distance

Email comments to: len.thomas@st-andrews.ac.uk
Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment

WiSP – Estimating Animal Abundance

Email comments to: dlb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment

MRSea – Marine renewables strategic environmental assessment

Software for fitting one and two dimensional spatially adaptive smoothing splines.  This software was developed for the marine renewables framework but is suitable for most smoothing applications.

If you would like to be emailed when a new version of ‘MRSea’ is available please fill in your details here.

Email comments to: lass@st-andrews.ac.uk

The latest version of the package has had a major overhaul in the specification of the models.  Please see the vignette with the package for more details.

For the latest package release (v1.02), please download from here.

For the development version of MRSea, please use the following code in R to install:

> devtools::install_git("https://github.com/lindesaysh/MRSea.git")

or

> devtools::install_github(repo = "lindesaysh/MRSea")

Package Vignette: Statistical Modelling of bird and cetacean distributions in offshore renewables development areas

Older versions of MRSea:

See my github site or the versions below.

MRSeaPower – Power analysis methods for assessing the Power to Detect Change.

Software for analysing the power to detect change. This work was undertaken by CREEM on behalf of the Scottish Government.

R package:

For the latest package release, please download from here.

For the development version of MRSeaPower, please use the following code in R to install:

> devtools::install_git("https://github.com/lindesaysh/MRSeaPower.git")

Older versions of MRSeaPower:

Documentation:

Package Vignette: Software for analysing the power to detect change

Mackenzie, M.L., Scott-Hayward, L.A.S., Paxton, C.G. and M.L. Burt (2017). Quantifying the Power to Detect Change: methodological development and implementation using the R package MRSeaPower.

Note:  The report will be uploaded here when it becomes available.