Projecting population dynamics and range expansion of reintroduced wild boar in Scotland using Agent-Based Modelling
Description
Wild_boar_ABM: this is the ABM (in NetLogo) which the associated paper is describing and testing. All data was produced using this model except where detailed in the manuscript and from below sources: Boar farms: this represents boar farms identified in Campbell and Hartley 2010. Approximate farm locations were georeferenced in QGIS v3.28.3. Scotland_and_Northern_England_landcovers_2023: this represents landcovers sourced from the CEH Landcover map 2023. This includes 1km2 pixels of the dominant landcovers from Scotland and Northern England (the latter acting as a buffer region to avoid a hard Scottish border in the modelling process). wild-boar-records/red-deer-records/roe-deer-records: these are sightings records for each of the three species, obtained from NBN atlas and cleaned as described in the manuscript.
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Steps to reproduce
The ABM presents the necessary code required to simulate boar populations in Scotland, meanwhile R Scripts provide the necessary code for analysing ABM outputs.
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British Deer Society
RES2021TD
Natural Environment Research Council
NE/S007229/1
Scottish Government Rural and Environmental Science and Analytical Services Division’ Strategic Research Programme 2022-27