Flying under the LiDAR: relating forest structure to bat activity, species richness, and presence

Code guide

This guide is to explain the different code files related to this manuscript.

abundance_diversity_plots.R

Code to make plots related to abundance, diversity, and presence of individual species within each cluster.

CorrelationMatrix.R

Creates a correlation matrix for the lidar variables used in the model selection (FinalModelSelection.R)

FinalModelSelection.R

Code for generalized models developed for analysis

kmeans.R

K-means cluster analysis and randomized site selection for the lidar data over the entirety of Ordway-Swisher.

rarefaction.R

Creates species richness curves to measure sampling effort in each cluster.

wingloading_aspect.R

Creates a graph of wing loading vs aspect ratio based on data from Farney and Flaherty, 1969.