/elephantTempKruger

Source code for Thaker, Gupte et. al (2019), on analysis of elephant movement in relation to temperature.

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Fine-Scale Tracking of Ambient Temperature and Movement Reveals Shuttling Behavior of Elephants to Water

This repository holds the source code for a project on African elephant movement in relation to temperature and water sources in Kruger National Park, South Africa. The study is published as Thaker, Gupte et al. (2019)

Readable version

A readable version of the code behind this paper is available by clinking the heading above.

Data access

The tracking dataset collected for use in this work is available from Movebank: https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.403h24q5

Citation for the paper

Thaker M, Gupte PR, Prins HHT, et al (2019) Fine-Scale Tracking of Ambient Temperature and Movement Reveals Shuttling Behavior of Elephants to Water. Front Ecol Evol 7:. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00004

Contact

Corresponding author
Dr. Maria Thaker
Centre for Ecological Sciences,
Indian Institute of Science. Email: m.thaker@iisc.ac.in

Code maintainer Pratik R. Gupte
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences,
University of Groningen.
Email: p.r.gupte@rug.nl