The link
P. E. Hallett (2013) Supplement A: Data Mining Tools for the 2011 Data
Set on Farmed Solitary Bees & Wasps
<https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/36274>
or https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/36274
provides functions that reduce a set of 25000 detailed spatial nest
records for several generations of solitary bees and wasps to /maps/ or
/tables/. A concise introduction, worked examples and computational
cribsheets are provided. Suppl. A is finished and largely stand-alone,
and the extensive 2011 Data Set is there for documentation, methods and
preliminary analyses if needed. A Suppl. B, for accumulating additional
tools and new data, will be posted later, but will be a 'work in progress'.
The 'Maps' function pins the requested information to a representation
of some part or whole of the fielded equipment (a two-dimensional array
of nest cavities). Many different spatial enquiries are possible. At the
level of /nests/, one can map the locations of either one species or
several species, the number of nests in each cavity, the nests surviving
to some particular stage, the survival stages at which nests die, the
parasitoids, the various causes of nest death, harvests, etc. Similarly,
for the level of the /immatures/. /'Non-nests'/, ranging from beginnings
of nests to near perfect but unprovisioned structures, can also be mapped.
A parallel set of 'Table' functions provides counts of the various
cavity widths (no big insects in narrow cavities!), and nests, immatures
or parasitoids at various survival stages, across the entire array of
nest cavities on a platform. Many examples are given. Other types of
table can be built by pooling the data of several Maps.
