Ant Bait Presence Absence — bait_presence

Get ant species presence/absence by year/plot/stake from bait census data

Bait census data is more consistent over time than the colony census data. This function assumes that all species present in at least one census were censused in all years.

bait_presence_absence(
  path = get_default_data_path(),
  level = "Site",
  download_if_missing = TRUE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

path: either the file path that contains the PortalData folder or "repo", which then pulls data from the PortalData GitHub repository
level: level at which to summarize data: 'Site', 'Plot', or 'Stake'
download_if_missing: if the specified file path doesn't have the PortalData folder, then download it
quiet: logical, whether to run without version messages

Value

data frame with year, species, (plot if applicable), and presence [1, 0]