Gorilla nesting sites

This is the gorillas dataset from the package spatstat.data, reformatted as point process data for use with inlabru.

Usage

gorillas
# To avoid the name clash with spatstat.data::gorillas, use
data(gorillas, package = "inlabru")

Format

The data are a list that contains these elements:

nests:

A SpatialPointsDataFrame object containing the locations of the gorilla nests.

boundary:

An SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object defining the boundary of the region that was searched for the nests.

mesh:

An inla.mesh object containing a mesh that can be used with function lgcp to fit a LGCP to the nest data.

gcov:

A list of SpatialGridDataFrame objects, one for each of these spatial covariates:

aspect

Compass direction of the terrain slope. Categorical, with levels N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W and NW, which are coded as integers 1 to 8.

elevation

Digital elevation of terrain, in metres.

heat

Heat Load Index at each point on the surface (Beer's aspect), discretised. Categorical with values Warmest (Beer's aspect between 0 and 0.999), Moderate (Beer's aspect between 1 and 1.999), Coolest (Beer's aspect equals 2). These are coded as integers 1, 2 and 3, in that order.

slopangle

Terrain slope, in degrees.

slopetype

Type of slope. Categorical, with values Valley, Toe (toe slope), Flat, Midslope, Upper and Ridge. These are coded as integers 1 to 6.

vegetation

Vegetation type: a categorical variable with 6 levels coded as integers 1 to 6 (in order of increasing expected habitat suitability)

waterdist

Euclidean distance from nearest water body, in metres.

plotsample

Plot sample of gorilla nests, sampling 9x9 over the region, with 60\

counts

A SpatialPointsDataFrame frame with elements x, y, count, exposure, being the x- and y-coordinates of the centre of each plot, the count in each plot and the area of each plot.

plots

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame defining the individual plot boundaries.

nests

A SpatialPointsDataFrame giving the locations of each detected nest.

Source

Library spatstat.data.

References

Funwi-Gabga, N. (2008) A pastoralist survey and fire impact assessment in the Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary, Cameroon. M.Sc. thesis, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Buea, Cameroon.

Funwi-Gabga, N. and Mateu, J. (2012) Understanding the nesting spatial behaviour of gorillas in the Kagwene Sanctuary, Cameroon. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 26 (6), 793-811.

Examples

if (bru_safe_inla() &&
  bru_safe_sp() &&
  require("sp") &&
  require(ggplot2, quietly = TRUE)) {
  data(gorillas, package = "inlabru") # get the data

  # plot all the nests, mesh and boundary
  ggplot() +
    gg(gorillas$mesh) +
    gg(gorillas$boundary) +
    gg(gorillas$nests)

  # Plot the elevation covariate
  plot(gorillas$gcov$elevation)

  # Plot the plot sample
  ggplot() +
    gg(gorillas$plotsample$plots) +
    gg(gorillas$plotsample$nests)
}