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problem in producing a HSM on different sites

Dear Michela,

What you are trying to achieve is not trivial, both from a technical and a 
biological point of view. From a technical point of view, this is really a 
'sp' issue, and not a 'adehabitatHS' one. The question is to know whether a 
SpatialPixelsDataFrame can accept non-contiguous areas. The answer is 
probably yes, using a single raster merging all three areas, and the rest 
filled in by NAs. This is probably something you can do using R spatial 
tools, but I cannot help here.

Second, from a biological point of view, it is not clear what you want to 
do. Using a single MADIFA for all three areas would imply that they are 
part of the same population, with the same rules that apply to them. In 
other words, each site is a sample from the whole population. If it is not 
the case, you might as well use three independent MADIFAs, each on a 
different study area. In this case, if you're interested into a single 
habitat suitability map, I would then suggest to merge individual MADIFA 
predictions into a single map. Since the MADIFA predicts (approximate) 
Mahalanobis distances, they should be comparable to each other (and could 
thus be merged together).

If you consider your three areas as three distinct populations, you might 
consider the OMI, for which I already gave you the reference.

Now, I would really advise you to think thoroughly about your problem, 
which is not a simple one, and try to understand precisely the aims of each 
approach. A good starting point is:

vignette("adehabitatHS")

Hope this helps,
Mathieu Basille.


Le 07/05/2013 04:12 AM, Michela Giusti a ?crit :