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:
map is an object of class SpatialPixelsDataFrame
(see help(SpatialPixelsDataFrame)) 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.
locs is an object of class SpatialPointsDataFrame
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).