Possible similar question for Alain Zuur

I have a question on best packages to robustly evaluate positive or 
negative associations of species activity compared to climate data and 
sun/moon phase data?The weather station recorded data every 15 minutes. 
Data fields are Date, time, temp, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, 
barometric pressure, wind direction and rain fall.

Sun/Moon data is by date with each date having times: Sunset, Sunrise, 
Evening twilight (civil), Moonrise, Moonset and % moon illumination.

The animal data is recorded occurrence of bat species by each minute 
every night each night from evening twilight to morning sunrise.

This if for 3 years of data.Thinking this will show if there is any 
?Lunar phobia? in Neotropical species and at what wind speeds and rain 
fall if any influences activity. As well as things like temp and 
barometer.Do they make a difference?

I would like to run the R code as iterations, 1 species at a time 
writing the results of each run.

Thanks for any insight Alain or others may have

Bruce

Bruce W. Miller, PhD.
Neotropical bat acoustic assessments, ID keys and Fact Sheets
Research Fellow - Wildlife Conservation Society - Ret.
Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History

Freely mentoring the next generation of bat biologists and conservationists since 1995

If we lose the bats, we may lose much of the tropical vegetation and the lungs of the planet

Using acoustic sampling to identify and map species distributions
and pioneering acoustic tools for ecology and conservation of bats for >28 years.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruce-Miller-5
Key projects include providing free interactive identification keys and call fact sheets for the vocal signatures of New World Bats

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