Eurasian Collared Dove Breeding Bird Survey Data

These data are North American Breeding Bird Survey data on the Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) for the years 1986 - 2008. (See http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/ for a description of the BBS).

In addition to Chapter 5 and 9 of Cressie and Wikle (2011), these data have been described and modeled in the following:


C.K. Wikle and M.B. Hooten. Hierarchical Bayesian spatio-temporal models for population spread. In J.S. Clark and A.E. Gelfand, editors, Applications of Computational Statistics in the Environmental Sciences: Hierarchical Bayes and MCMC Methods, pages 145-169. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2006.

M.B. Hooten and C.K. Wikle. A hierarchical Bayesian nonlinear spatio-temporal model for the spread of invasive species with application to the Eurasian Collared Dove. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 15:59-70, 2008.

M.B. Hooten, C.K. Wikle, R.M. Dorazio, and J.A. Royle. Hierarchical spatio-temporal matrix models for characterizing invasions. Biometrics, 63:558-567, 2007.


FILES:

ECDoveBBS1986_2008.dat: 253 x 18 matrix; 253 spatial locations and 18 years (1986 in column 1, 2008 in column 18); missing data are denoted by -1

ECDovelatlon.dat: 253 x 2 matrix; 253 spatial locations with first column corresponding to latitude (degrees North) and second column corresponding to longitude (degrees West; the negative sign indicates West longitude)