Code and data for estimating fishing effort from spatially extensive data across a lake-rich landscape

This repository contains code and data used to answer the following questions: 1. When fit to spatially extensive data, can models detect annual, seasonal, and daily changes in fishing effort? 2. How do fishing effort estimates derived from extensive observations compare to those derived from intensive observation? 3. How well can models fit to extensive data predict total fishing effort on unobserved lakes? 4. How can these model-based methods be applied to predict fishing effort across a fisheries landscape? <br>All subfolders of code and data can be found in "code data output subfolders.zip"<br>v.3 update: This code pulls from the 'csvs' folder as well as from the 10/13/2020 version (v.3) of the MFE database found and downloaded here: https://caryinstitute.figshare.com/articles/MFE_database_Data_from_ecosystem_ecology_research_by_Jones_Solomon_and_collaborators_on_the_ecology_and_biogeochemistry_of_lakes_and_lake_organisms_in_the_Upper_Midwest_USA/7438598 <br>See the "ReadMe.txt" file for code order and metadata.<br>