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The relative effects of shelters on m.clim and animal association patterns (across a gradient?) #2

Closed zenrabbit closed 3 months ago

zenrabbit commented 3 months ago

revisions

1 can please add the potential title of paper, hypothesis in one sentence, and the predictions you are testing with these data at the top of file.

can you add warning and message = FALSE in rmd chunk
can you add a section called plots for the paper
Can you pls also compile and tidy up all data and just publish as one data package to KNB (see comment below)

big picture

lead with site climate differences (with stations or WClim), then shelter-shrub m.climate effects, then animal associations with structures etc.

Hypothesis

shelter important to m.clim and thus animals?

Preds

P1 - shelters like shrubs mediate fine-scale climate, ie m.clim
P2 - animals use shelters
P3 - the extent that shelters/shrubs mediate m.clim predicts animal associations?
P4 - shelters are as effective as shrubs if facilitation is mostly driven by climate amelioration?

zenrabbit commented 3 months ago

ok, see there are multiple sites and seasons - need to incorporate into models and plots? see predications above, if you are agree, give it an edit

zenrabbit commented 3 months ago

Main findings

sites differ in climate (station or WClim data) - not a prediction (just an assumption you need to test)

then shelters influence m.clim like shrubs do animals associate with shrubs and shelters... the same.. shelters and shrubs buffer m.clim relative to the open and the extent predicts associations of animals

the gradient across sites/does or does not predict animal association patterns (like Mario's, do site-level means for shelter, shrub, open etc and test site-level climate effects).

zenrabbit commented 3 months ago