code and data for "A SPATIAL BIRTH-DEATH PROCESS TO MODEL SESSILE ORGANISMS" by IanFlint Peter Vesk, Yan Wang and Aihua Xia

We introduce a spatial birth-death process with birth/death rates that explicitly depend on distances to other points. a model is developed that is useful for analysing the spatiotemporal dynamics of sessile organisms, such as trees. The model can be applied to forest dynamics plots. Field data (raw_qld_trees.rda) are from the following source, packaged here for easy analysis. If you wish to reuse, please use and cite the original source: Bradford, Matt; Murphy, Helen; Ford, Andrew; Hogan, Dominic; & Metcalfe, Dan (2014): CSIRO Permanent Rainforest Plots of North Queensland. v3. CSIRO. Data Collection. https://doi.org/10.4225/08/59475c67be7a4