Use user provided nest locations

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Bird Point Count Simulator

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Use user provided nest locations #4

Closed psolymos closed 5 years ago

psolymos commented 5 years ago

Should allow for user provided nest locations. It can be a coercion method that would turn a 2-column matrix or data frame or list into a bsism_population object. Other argument can be a landscape object (use defaults when missing).

Use cases:

use real territory mapping
use fine scale habitat info (rasters, polygons) to determine nest locations, assuming that these fine scale differences do not impact behavior and observation layers

psolymos commented 5 years ago

This idea does not quite cut it in terms of the original logic and design: landscape > expected value > abundance > placement.

I would recommend a hack:

initialize landscape
populate landscape with abund_fun=round
mutate nest locations in object$nests based on landscape