Estimating the number of birds or bats killed at a wind power facility involves adjusting observed carcass counts to account for imperfect detection. To account for carcasses that lie outside the searched area, the count is adjusted by dividing by the estimated proportion of carcasses lying within the searched area or the density-weighted proportion (dwp). The dwp package provides tools for estimating dwp for use in mortality estimators such as GenEst (Dalthorp et al. 2018) and Evidence of Absense (Dalthorp et al. 2017).
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 Version 1.0 of the software has been approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although the software has been subjected to rigorous review, the USGS reserves the right to update the software as needed pursuant to further analysis and review. No warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS or the U.S. Government as to the functionality of the software and related material nor shall the fact of release constitute any such warranty. Furthermore, the software is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use.
Minor modifications and bug fixes in subsequent versions have not reviewed by USGS.
v1.1 Method for estimating the area searched in each ring has been
updated. The new method does not rely on gpclib::area.poly,
which is no longer available on CRAN. It estimates the area searched in
each ring by averaging the arc lengths of the intersections of the inner
and outer ring boundaris with the search polygon.
dwp User Guide: Daniel Dalthorp, Manuela Huso, Mark Dalthorp, Jeff Mintz Accounting for the Fraction of Carcasses outside the Searched Area and the Estimation of Bird and Bat Fatalities at Wind Energy Facilities https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10064
Dalthorp, D, Simonis, J, Madsen, L, Huso, M, Rabie, P, Mintz, J, Wolpert, R, Studyvin, J, and Korner-Nievergelt, F. 2018. R package. GenEst: Generalized Mortality Estimator. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=GenEst
Dalthorp, D, Huso, M, Dail, D, and Kenyon, J. 2017. Evidence of Absence (v2.0) Software and user Guide. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ds1055