This data set stores the results of the monitoring of lynx in the French Jura between 1980 and 1999. These data have been collected by the Lynx Network of the french wildlife management office (Office national de la chasse et de la faune sauvage).
data(lynxjura)The list lynxjura has two components:
mapan object of class kasc (see
help(kasc)) that describes several variables on the study
area: forets is the density of forests, hydro is the
density of rivers, routes is the density of roads and
artif is the distance from urbanized areas.
locsa data frame containing the locations of presence
indices of the lynx. X and Y are the x and y
coordinates, Date is the date of the collection of the
indice and Type represents the type of data (C: alive
lynx captured, D: attacks on livestock, E: prints or
tracks, F: feces, J: hairs, L: corpse of lynx,
O: sightings and P: attacks on wild prey).