Everglades Wading Bird Project Methods

The official methods for the Everglades Wading Bird Project, which include detailed monitoring data for the 3 Water Conservation Areas (WCAs) in the Everglades, and additional monitoring data from across the entire Greater Everglades Ecosystem.

All data are available in near real-time in the Everglades Wading Bird Project GitHub Repository and [actively archived to Zenodo)(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7734553).

R Package

An R package is provided to aid in use of the database. The wader package can be installed via remotes::install_github(“weecology/wader”). Documentation can be found in the GitHub repo (https://github.com/weecology/wader).

Data versions

Data versioning follows semantic versioning. Every time data are appended to a dataset, a new minor version is released and archived on Zenodo. A major version is released when the structure of a table changes, old data are significantly revised, or another change is made that could affect backward compatibility.