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- Title
incR: a new R package to analyse incubation behaviour.
- Authors
Capilla‐Lasheras, Pablo
- Abstract
Incubation represents a life stage of crucial importance for the optimal development of avian embryos. For most birds, incubation poses a trade‐off between investing in self‐maintenance and offspring care. Furthermore, incubation is affected by environmental temperatures and, therefore, will be likely impacted by climate change. Despite its relevance and readily available temperature logging methods, avian incubation research is hindered by recognised limitations in available software. In this paper, a new quantitative approach to analyse incubation behaviour is presented. This new approach is embedded in a free R package, incR. The flexibility of the R environment eases the analysis, validation and visualisation of incubation temperature data. The core algorithm in incR is validated here and it is shown that the method extracts accurate metrics of incubation behaviour (e.g. number and duration of incubation bouts). This paper also presents a suggested workflow along with detailed R code to aid the practical implementation of incR.
- Subjects
AVIAN anatomy; EGG incubation; BIRDS -- Environmental aspects; NESTS; ANIMAL habitations
- Publication
Journal of Avian Biology, 2018, Vol 49, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
0908-8857
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jav.01710