SMAMMUNITY: SMall mAMMal commUNITY

Analysis of small mammal community structure, habitat, and functional traits after the 2017 King Fire in the Sierra Nevada, CA

Publication: Culhane, K., R. Sollmann, A.M. White, G.L. Tarbill, S. Cooper, M.A. Moritz, H.S. Young. (2022). Small mammal functional traits and vegetation characteristics mediate community responses to fire severity. Ecology and Evolution. Manuscript accepted.

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Summaries of analysis

1. Data cleaning
2. Data wrangling
3. Spatial metrics
4. Site justification
5. Small mammal abundance & biomass
6. Small mammal diversity (richness & evenness)
7. Small mammal abundance/diversity summary figure
8. Site vegetation variables
9. NMDS small mammal community analysis
10. Multivariate GLM small mammal community analysis
11. Analyses with rare species excluded

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Folder structure

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├── code           # Code for analyses (.Rmd files)
├── docs           # Compiled documents summarizing analyses (.html files, links to view listed above)
├── figs           # Output figures (.png files)
├── old_code       # Unorganized snippets of ill-fated code (use at your own risk)
├── output_data    # Data files generated during analysis
├── raw_data       # Raw data files from field measurements, literature review, and spatial databases
└── README.md      # You are here

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Contact: Kate Culhane, kathrynculhane@ucsb.edu