Data and Analysis: Individual foraging site fidelity persists within and across stopover seasons in a migratory shorebird

This repository contains the data and code necessary to reproduce the analysis and figures in the manuscript "Individual foraging site fidelity persists within and across stopover seasons in a migratory shorebird" by Handmaker et al. (submitted, Proceedings of the Royal Society B).Authors (affiliation): Maina C. Handmaker (Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts) Felicia J. Sanders (South Carolina Department of Natural Resources)Adam D. Smith (American Bird Conservancy) Ethan P. Shealy (Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia) Natasza Fontaine () Madelyn B. Kaplin (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) Janet M. Thibault (South Carolina Department of Natural Resources) Mary Catherine Martin (South Carolina Department of Natural Resources) Camille Duquet (South Carolina Department of Natural Resources) Abby V. Stering (Manomet, Inc.)Nathan R. Senner (Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts) To run the analysis: Download this repository; all code and data is available in this repository If necessary, extract the zipped repository to the desired location on your local machine. Open the `whimbrel_site_fidelity.Rproj` file in [RStudio](https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/) on a computer with internet access; RStudio requires [R](http://www.r-project.org) to be installed. This opens the RStudio project associated with the data, code, and analysis. All of the code necessary to process, analyze, and generate figures is located in the `Scripts` directory. Open and begin by running the code within `00_core_stopover_filter.R`. Proceed sequentially through other similarly-named files. If interested in just one component of the analysis, all necessary data are loaded at the top of each script, so that each script can be run without running all previous files. If interested only in the figures, these are provided as a convenience in the `Figures` directory (and each can be recreated by running the code within `11_make_figure.R`.)