windAC:Area Correction Methods
Post-construction fatality monitoring studies at wind facilities are based on data from searches for bird and bat
carcasses in plots beneath turbines. Bird and bat carcasses can
fall outside of the search plot. Bird and bat carcasses from
wind turbines often fall outside of the searched area. To
compensate, area correction (AC) estimations are calculated to
estimate the percentage of fatalities that fall within the
searched area versus those that fall outside of it. This
package provides two likelihood based methods and one physics
based method (Hull and Muir (2010)
<doi:10.1080/14486563.2010.9725253>, Huso and Dalthorp (2014)
<doi:10.1002/jwmg.663>) to estimate the carcass fall
distribution. There are also functions for calculating the
proportion of area searched within one unit annuli, log
logistic distribution functions, and truncated distribution
functions.
