ForecastingAndMonitoringOptimization

This is the repository to the article "The dependence of forecasts on sampling frequency as a guide to optimizing monitoring in community ecology".

Second release:

First release:

Repository structure

ForecastingAndMonitoringOptimization
|-- README.md
|-- LICENSE.txt   
|-- ForecastingAndMonitoringOptimization.Rproj
|-- Data (to be added)
    |-- CCM_analysis_data
    |-- forecast_data
    |-- SimulationsForecastVsGrowthRate
    |-- SMap_interaction_data
    |-- Timeseries
|-- R
    |-- Functions
    |-- DataAnalysis

Files and directories

• README.md: this file
• LICENSE.txt: document containing the license conditions
• ForecastingAndMonitoringOptimization.Rproj: R project file
• Data: directory containing all the data used in the study
  • Timeseries: directory containing the actual data
  • The other directories contain the results of the various analyses. They are not needed to reproduce the study, but considering that some analyses can take days or weeks, we provide their results as .RData or .csv files as well.
• R: directory containg all the code needed to reproduce the study
  • Functions: directory containing several R scripts in which several functions are implemented
  • DataAnalysis: directory containing the R script used in the study, i.e. to analyse the data.