Software

This software release contains the code necessary to produce the elk habitat selection models used to support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service feeding decisions for the National Elk Refuge. The models project elk space use under five management alternatives: continued feeding, no feeding, reduced ration, halt feeding after CWD threshold is met, and halt feeding after five years of...

Bold personality traits act as a precursor to human-habituation, which permits bold elk to reap the forage and predation rewards that occur in suburban landscapes. A multi-pronged approach beyond just maintaining habitat corridors may be necessary to conserve long-distance migrations for species that can become human-habituated. This software runs Bayesian Dirichlet models predicting elk...

This software release contains the code necessary to run the chronic wasting disease (CWD) and elk population models used to support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision on whether to continue to continue supplemental feeding of elk on the National Elk Refuge (NER). The models allow for five different management alternatives: continued feeding, reduced feeding, increased hunting...

This document serves as an open code book detailing application of a multi-scale occupancy model to bat acoustic data collected according to the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) sampling design. In this document, we detail a complete analysis of acoustic data collected on Hoary bats in Montana between 2020 and 2022, including: examples of data cleaning and preparation for...

The purpose of this document is to demonstrate how data collected by the Pacific Northwest Bat Hub, a member of the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat), may be used to make inferences about species occurrence. As motivation, we consider occurrence data collected on Silver-haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans, LANO) in Oregon and Washington in 2019. In particular, we are...

Code release for a statistical framework that provides a solution to overcome institutionally siloed monitoring activities in order to inform species conservation across large landscapes. Stan code and documentation to provide access and adaptation for other wildlife disease applications.

This software release contains the code necessary to run the chronic wasting disease (CWD) and elk habitat selection models used to support the U.S. Forest Service decision on whether to continue to permit supplemental feeding of elk on USFS land. The models allow for four different management alternatives: continued feeding, emergency feeding, phase-out after three years, or no feeding...

RETRACTED see https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R7XWO1

This is a repository with R code for CWD simulation models and interactive Shiny applications. Currently there are deterministic and stochastic models that are intended to model hunting scenarios for a 5 to 10 year time horizon. The models are sex and age structured with direct and indirect transmission.

This package is designed to estimate, summarize, and visualize wildlife aggregation metrics using location information like GPS collar data. The motivation for the development of this package began with two research efforts studying the aggregation and density of elk on the National Elk Refuge, Wyoming (Janousek et al.2021; and Graves et al. 2021). The primary goal of the WildAgg package...

The Risk of Contact Tool (RoCT) is an R-based implementation of the Risk of Contact model described in O'Brien et al. (2014). It uses a variety of spatial inputs (including telemetry point data, a core herd home range (CHHR) polygon, a habitat raster model, and a set of active domestic sheep allotments) together with estimates of bighorn sheep foray behavior to estimate the probability...

R code to fit models with and without sample weights and simulation code