Data and analysis: South Atlantic Bight – a final stop for Ruddy Turnstones migrating to the Arctic

This repository contains the data and code necessary to reproduce the analysis and figures in the manuscript "South Atlantic Bight – a final stop for Ruddy Turnstones migrating to the Arctic" by Sanders et al. (Journal of Field Ornithology 94(2):5; https://doi.org/10.5751/JFO-00264-940205).

Authors (affiliation):

• Felicia J. Sanders (South Carolina Department of Natural Resources)
• Adam D. Smith (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System, Inventory and Monitoring Branch; Current address: American Bird Conservancy)
• Janet M. Thibault (South Carolina Department of Natural Resources)
• Deborah L. Carter (University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine, Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study)
• Maina C. Handmaker (Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts)
• Fletcher M. Smith (Georgia Department of Natural Resources)

To run the analysis:

1. Download this repository; all code and data is available in this repository
2. Extract the zipped RUTU directory to the desired location on your local machine.
3. Within the RUTU directory, open the RUTU.Rproj file in RStudio on a computer with internet access. Note that RStudio requires R to be installed. This opens the RStudio project associated with the data, code, and analysis.
4. All of the code necessary to process, analyze, and generate figures is located in the Code directory. Open and begin by running the code within 00_Process_RUTU_Motus_data.R. Proceed sequentially through other similarly-named files. If interested only in the figures, these are provided as a convenience in the Output directory.