This repository contains example code from a project to estimate the statistical power of a biodiversity monitoring program in Kanton Aargau, Switzerland. I analyzed three groups of species, consisting of terrestiral snails, vascular plants and breeding birds. I have only uploaded scripts for the analysis of the data on birds, as the scripts for the other groups are similar. This is a large and complicated analysis, which involved the simulation of a trend in the number of species over time. While the report itself does not fully describe the details of the simulations, these can be discerned by anyone familiar with R by examining the code include here.
A notable aspect of this work is that it make extensive use of a computation cluster running the Sun Grid Engine. This was available at the Federal Research Institute WSL, in Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
The draft report in English and all the associated graphics and tables are available on my Google Drive account here
To go straight to just the figures, click here
20.09.2016 Upload R scripts for birds. 02.10.2016 Corrected link for report and graphics directory