animalnexus

AnimalNexus processes and visualizes animal movement data collected from static stations using RFID and other stationary detection sources to transform time-stamped, georeferenced records into visits, presence, movements, displacements, and activity patterns for ecological and behavioral analysis.

Key Features:

• Data Transformation: The R package feedr loads and transforms time-stamped, georeferenced RFID records and converts raw detections into visits, presence, movements between loggers, displacements, and activity patterns.
• Data Visualization: Generates static maps, interactive maps, and animations of animal movement and detection histories within R.
• Compatibility Functions: Provides conversion functions to reformat outputs for compatibility with other R packages.
• Supported Detection Sources: Processes data from static RFID logger stations and other stationary sources such as hair traps, static very high frequency (VHF) telemetry loggers, and observations of marked individuals in colonies or staging sites.

Scientific Applications:

• Habitat and resource use: Analyze habitat utilization and resource-use patterns from detection histories.
• Social interactions: Quantify social interactions and dynamics inferred from co-detections and movement between loggers.
• Movement and migration: Characterize movements between stations, displacements, and migration routes.
• Activity patterns: Examine temporal activity patterns derived from time-stamped detections.

Methodology:

Within R, feedr loads time-stamped, georeferenced RFID records from static logger stations, transforms detections into visits/presence/movements/displacements/activity patterns, provides conversion functions for other R packages, and generates static/interactive maps and animations.