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A dataset containing the historical record of the Thylacine bounty numbers submitted across the Tasmanian study region, and for each of the nine Interim Bioregionalisation of Australia (IBRA) bioregions for Thylacine example vignette.

Format

A data frame with 22 rows and 11 variables:

Year

Year during bounty period from 1888 to 1909

Total

Total Tasmania-wide bounty submitted

FUR

Bounty submitted in IBRA bioregion: Furneaux

BEN

Bounty submitted in IBRA bioregion: Ben Lomond

TNM

Bounty submitted in IBRA bioregion: Tasmanian Northern Midlands

TSE

Bounty submitted in IBRA bioregion: Tasmanian South East

TW

Bounty submitted in IBRA bioregion: Tasmanian West

TNS

Bounty submitted in IBRA bioregion: Tasmanian Northern Slopes

TSR

Bounty submitted in IBRA bioregion: Tasmanian Southern Ranges

TCH

Bounty submitted in IBRA bioregion: Tasmanian Central Highlands

KIN

Bounty submitted in IBRA bioregion: King

Source

https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13720

Examples

data(thylacine_bounty_record)
summary(thylacine_bounty_record)
#>       Year          Total             FUR              BEN       
#>  Min.   :1888   Min.   :  4.00   Min.   : 0.000   Min.   : 0.00  
#>  1st Qu.:1893   1st Qu.: 80.25   1st Qu.: 2.000   1st Qu.: 6.25  
#>  Median :1898   Median :106.50   Median : 3.000   Median :12.50  
#>  Mean   :1898   Mean   : 92.77   Mean   : 4.318   Mean   :12.32  
#>  3rd Qu.:1904   3rd Qu.:117.50   3rd Qu.: 6.500   3rd Qu.:17.75  
#>  Max.   :1909   Max.   :136.00   Max.   :13.000   Max.   :28.00  
#>       TNM             TSE              TW           TNS             TSR       
#>  Min.   : 0.00   Min.   : 0.00   Min.   :0.0   Min.   : 0.00   Min.   : 0.00  
#>  1st Qu.: 7.25   1st Qu.:15.25   1st Qu.:0.0   1st Qu.: 4.25   1st Qu.: 8.75  
#>  Median :18.00   Median :27.50   Median :0.0   Median :10.00   Median :12.50  
#>  Mean   :14.82   Mean   :25.18   Mean   :0.5   Mean   :11.09   Mean   :14.05  
#>  3rd Qu.:21.00   3rd Qu.:32.75   3rd Qu.:0.0   3rd Qu.:17.75   3rd Qu.:19.75  
#>  Max.   :35.00   Max.   :48.00   Max.   :4.0   Max.   :26.00   Max.   :34.00  
#>       TCH             KIN        
#>  Min.   :0.000   Min.   : 0.000  
#>  1st Qu.:0.250   1st Qu.: 4.000  
#>  Median :1.000   Median : 7.000  
#>  Mean   :1.773   Mean   : 8.727  
#>  3rd Qu.:2.750   3rd Qu.:12.000  
#>  Max.   :7.000   Max.   :31.000  
# Assuming your data frame is named thylacine_bounty_record
plot(thylacine_bounty_record$Year, thylacine_bounty_record$Total, type="l", 
    main="Change in Total Bounties Over Time", 
    xlab="Year", 
    ylab="Total Bounties")