Data from: Integrating encounter theory with decision analysis to evaluate collision risk and determine optimal protection zones for wildlife

Udell_et_al_AnalysisPlease cite the original publication when referencing these methods. This folder contains all data, Rcode, and JAGS code needed to run each analysis from Udell et al. 2018. These analyses include modeling the abundance of manatees and boats in space and time using a Bayesian approach; modeling the lethal collision risk to manatees on a fine scale under different boat speed zones; and determining the optimal protection zones using Linear Integer Programming to balance the trade off between risk to manatees and burdens to waterway users. These analyses are organized into 4 different folders: 1) a folder with data and code to run a Bayesian analysis of abundance (using informative priors) using multi-season and single season N-mixture models of the hurdle variety (used to model abundance of manatees). 2) a folder with data and code to run a Bayesian analysis of abundance (using informative priors) using a multi-season hurdle model (used to model abundance of boats), 3) a folder with data and code to model the lethal collision risk between boats and manatees on a fine spatial scale while accounting for uncertainty. Also contains code to determine the optimal speed zones using Linear Integer Programming. 4) a folder with data and code to spatially smooth the optimal zones. See the corresponding publication, and especially the supporting information for more details on the methods.