Taking average of home ranges

[Aidan Branney]

Hello,

Thank you for your help earlier with pooling the variance. Now I'm trying to use my calculated AKDEs that account for variance and pooling an average home range value across my population of animals. Is there a function you recommend to compute this  value?

Thank you,

Aidan

[Christen Fleming]

Hi Aidan,

• meta() is for averaging home-range areas (in square meters) to get the population average and coefficient of variation.
  
• mean() is for averaging home-range distributions, under the assumption that the sample of distributions is the population of distributions - such as for combining summer and winter ranges.
  
• pkde() is for extrapolating the population distribution, when you have a small sample of a larger population - such as for a herd or colony.

Best,

Chris