This package contains the scripts, functions and lookup tables used to format, impute and run the B1 indicator seabird breeding and wintering abundance analysis, on the ICES data supplied by International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).
This analysis forms part of the assessment of B1 - Marine bird abundance Biodiversity Indicator used in support of the delivery of the Quality Status Report 2023. The results of the previous 2017 Marine Bird Abundance analysis can found on the OSPAR website.
The package documentation can be viewed by opening the index.html file, found in the docs folder, in your web browser.
The information section contains instructions on running the scripts required to format the ICES data and run the B1 indicator analyses, as well as the updated analytic steps for 2021.
The functions and lookup tables used to format the data and run the B1 indicator analyses are found in the lookups and functions section which includes links to the documentation for each function or lookup table. The data-raw directory contains the scripts used to import and format the lookup data frames.
The scripts used to format, impute and apply regional weightings on the ICES data are found in the formatting section. The ices_data_raw script to import and format the ICES data is found in the data-raw directory. The script markdown files are found in the vignettes directory.
The scripts used to run both the breeding and wintering analyses are found in the analysis section, with the script markdown files found in the vignettes directory.