Comparing the movement of Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in two Nature Reserves

Author

Jacob Walton (N0962776)

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April 20, 2025

Number of rows with NA:  20229
Total GPS Points & Tracking Duration (Days) per Fox
S19M02 S19M03 B16M02 S18M03 S19F01 S19F06 S19F04 B17F04 B16M05 B16F02 S18F02 S19F05 S18M04 B16M06 B17F03 S18M02 B17M05 B16M03 B17M03 S19M01
Total Points 10063 6417 6406 6373 6335 5645 5492 5231 5150 5129 5048 5038 5034 4778 4716 4557 4289 4276 4259 4233
Duration (days) 81 55 88 61 84 42 41 64 52 50 38 37 52 36 63 79 45 66 53 33
B17M04 S19M04 B17M02 B16F03 B17F05 B17F01 S18M01 S19F02 S18F01 B16F01 B17M01 B16M01 B16M04 S19F03 B17F02
Total Points 4172 4091 3857 3816 3742 3342 2965 2900 2321 1834 1590 1078 968 813 114
Duration (days) 46 31 46 38 37 28 64 23 26 36 33 10 9 20 1

Timelag stamps for foxes under 90 minutes

Viewing collected data:

remove outlier in somerley!

Question 1

Home range of animal size

MCP

AKDE


    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  Brit_AKDE$area
W = 0.79381, p-value = 0.003065

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  Som_AKDE$area
W = 0.84872, p-value = 0.01666

    Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction

data:  Som_AKDE$area and Brit_AKDE$area
W = 203, p-value = 9.46e-05
alternative hypothesis: true location shift is greater than 0


    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  M_AKDE$area
W = 0.86961, p-value = 0.02682

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  F_AKDE$area
W = 0.89458, p-value = 0.09411

    Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction

data:  M_AKDE$area and F_AKDE$area
W = 125, p-value = 0.3017
alternative hypothesis: true location shift is greater than 0


    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  F_Brit$area
W = 0.88521, p-value = 0.2506

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  M_Brit$area
W = 0.72354, p-value = 0.004146

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  F_Som$area
W = 0.85549, p-value = 0.1379

    Shapiro-Wilk normality test

data:  M_Som$area
W = 0.89127, p-value = 0.2405

    Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction

data:  M_Brit$area and F_Brit$area
W = 17, p-value = 0.9084
alternative hypothesis: true location shift is greater than 0

    Welch Two Sample t-test

data:  M_Som$area and F_Som$area
t = 2.1323, df = 9.3254, p-value = 0.03037
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is greater than 0
95 percent confidence interval:
 0.08649294        Inf
sample estimates:
mean of x mean of y 
1.3526250 0.7507143 

    Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction

data:  M_Som$area and M_Brit$area
W = 59, p-value = 0.002692
alternative hypothesis: true location shift is greater than 0

    Welch Two Sample t-test

data:  F_Som$area and F_Brit$area
t = 3.4568, df = 8.1158, p-value = 0.00421
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is greater than 0
95 percent confidence interval:
 0.1893896       Inf
sample estimates:
mean of x mean of y 
0.7507143 0.3417143 
         Metric Value
1          Mean  0.71
2        Median  0.55
3           Max  2.65
4           Min  0.12
5         Range  2.54
6   Female Mean  0.55
7     Male Mean  0.86
8 Britford Mean  0.35
9 Somerley Mean  1.07
           Matric Value
1   Britford Mean  0.35
2 Britford Median  0.25
3   Somerley Mean  1.07
4 Somerley Median  0.92
5     Female Mean  0.55
6       Male Mean  0.86
           Metric Value
1 Female Britford  0.34
2 Female Somerley  0.75
3   Male Britford  0.37
4   Male Somerley  1.35

Question 2

SSF

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Area under the curve: 0.5681
Area under the curve: 0.6103

Question 3

DIstancece to buildings

Proximity to Buildings by Fox (Including Counts Under 50m & 25m)
Metric B16F01 B16F02 B16F03 B16M02 B16M03 B16M04 B16M05 B17M03 S18F01 S18F02 S18M01 S18M03 S18M04 S19F01 S19F03 S19F05 S19F06 S19M02 S19M03 S19M04 S19F02 B17F05 B17M01 B16M06 B17F04 S19M01 B16M01 B17M04 S19F04 S18M02 B17F03 B17M02 B17F01 B17M05 B17F02
Min_Distance_m 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.18 0.92 1.2 1.43 1.57 1.68 2.53 2.74 3.69 6.4 7.85 9.26 14.43 30.1 39.42
Points_Under_50m 59 45 1084 782 331 18 497 92 538 468 94 1918 1502 1019 184 157 1135 2211 3617 402 2.00 117.00 7.0 62.00 175.00 233.00 82.00 438.00 114.00 13.0 56.00 55.00 35.00 9.0 2.00
Points_Under_25m 19 8 539 292 130 4 127 52 184 175 55 1142 1034 521 86 45 402 999 2227 120 1.00 46.00 3.0 15.00 27.00 93.00 26.00 65.00 25.00 8.0 11.00 6.00 7.00 0.0 0.00