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FL ight R: an r package for reconstructing animal paths from solar geolocation loggers
Author(s) -
Rakhimberdiev Eldar,
Saveliev Anatoly,
Piersma Theunis,
Karagicheva Julia
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
methods in ecology and evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.425
H-Index - 105
ISSN - 2041-210X
DOI - 10.1111/2041-210x.12765
Subject(s) - geolocation , r package , data logger , computer science , environmental science , computational science , world wide web , operating system
Summary Solar geolocators are relatively cheap and simple tools which are widely used to study the migration of animals, especially birds. The methods to estimate the geographic positions from the light‐intensity patterns collected by these loggers, however, are still under development. The accurate reconstruction of the annual schedules and movement patterns of individual animals requires analytical methods which provide estimates of daily locations, distances between the locations and the directions of movement, with measures of their uncertainty. The new r package FL ight R meets all these requirements. It enables refined and statistically validated estimations of movement patterns of birds. Here, we present main features of this advanced package.