Based on museum collections data over the 19th and 20th century, we've made maps that compare the abundance of Painted Buntings to other species collected in the same 1-degree x 1-degree gird square across Mexico.
This analysis is to be used to do a point in polygon analysis of point collections data in order to determine abundunce of a particular species based on the total observed collections effort in the area. A grid of 1-degree x 1-degree cells is created, then the target species and the
The following scripts work on a dataset of Painted Bunting collections data in Mexico. While the sqlite data are not in the repository, contact jduckles@ou.edu or ebridge@ou.edu to make contact with the data rights holder if interested in using this particular dataset.
