Using interview surveys and multispecies occupancy models to inform vertebrate conservation

The Excel workbook WGAllSpeciesCov.xlsx contains detection histories of 30 species of vertebrates in 395 sites in the Western Ghats, India obtained from interviews with field staff of the Forest Department, people from local communities and formally trained people. The workbook also contains site level covariates or determinants of species occurrence. The associated README text file contains metadata to describe the data in the xlsx workbook. Complete R code to read in the data and run the model is provided in the R file: FP_MSp_SS_SpR_AllTraitGr.R and the JAGS code for the multispecies occupancy model is provided in the text file FP_MSp_SS_SpR_AllTraitGr_Exp_NoFP.txt

Excel工作簿WGAllSpeciesCov.xlsx收录了印度西高止山脉（Western Ghats）395个样地中30种脊椎动物的检测历史数据，该类数据通过访谈印度林务局野外工作人员、当地社区民众以及受过正规培训的人员获取。该工作簿同时包含样地水平的协变量，即物种出现的影响因子。配套的README文本文件包含用于说明该Excel工作簿内数据的元数据。读取数据并运行模型的完整R代码已在R脚本文件FP_MSp_SS_SpR_AllTraitGr.R中提供，而用于多物种占有模型（multispecies occupancy model）的JAGS代码则收录于文本文件FP_MSp_SS_SpR_AllTraitGr_Exp_NoFP.txt中。