Why does animal home range size decrease with population density? -Repository

Data and R code for calculating snowshoe hare home ranges and testing how snowshoe hare home range size is effected by population density. Study takes place over multiple years of the hare population cycle during which some individuals were recieving supplementary food (food add experiment).

Necessary data and script are shared here. All data cleaning steps and project design can be found in the full repository at: https://github.com/jballuffi/HR_PopCycle_SnowshoeHares

To run:

Source all function scripts ('function_...R'), 'ggplot_themes.R', 'packages.R', and 'variables.R' at the start of each script to load necessary packages, functions, and ggplot formating. This is the first line of each script below.

1) run the script: '03-calc_HRarea.R' to calculate home range sizes from cleaned gps data ('all_gps.rds'). If you wish to not look at home range calculations skip to step 2.

2) take the compiled data (compileddata.rds), which home range data (output from step 1) merged with hare density data (densities.rds) and run the script '05-homerange_plots.R' to get figure 1 in paper.

3) run '06-results_density.R' to get results tables and figures.