Description of the contents of LOCFILES.ZIP, sample home range data

The files listed below have been archived in LOCFILES.ZIP. After downloading and unzipping LOCFILES.ZIP, these files may be used to replicate the comparison of PC software packages in R. P. Larkin and D. Halkin, TWS Bull. (submitted). The software packages listed in the second column below are not obtainable from me; some are on Bird Monitor and contact names and addresses for all are given in the Larkin and Halkin manuscript.

The files are not large. They all have the same set of XY (East-North) locations; they differ only in format and in additional data they may contain. All the .LOC files are flat ASCII files; the documentation for the packages listed in the second column describes the fields in the .LOC files. Each has N=64 locations which are augmented in some cases by other data. Each record is an exact location of a small mammal trap in meters.

Daniel Halkin and I thank Ed Heske of the Illinois Natural History Survey for these sample data and Robert Diehl for performing the transfer of the files to Bird Monitor.

Ronald P. Larkin
Center for Wildlife Ecology
Illinois Natural History Survey
607 E. Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
r-larkin@uiuc.edu (Ron Larkin) 217-333-7513

27 November 1992


FILE [program(s) used as input for]
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DB_DIXON.LOC [DIXON, KERNELHR]
DB_HOMER.LOC [HOMER (Garrott and White 1990)]
DB_HR.LOC [Homerange]
DB_RANGE.LOC [RANGES IV]
DB_SEAS.LOC [SEAS, DC80, CALHOME]
DB_TEL88.LOC [TELEM88]
MCPAAL.DAT [McPaal]