🐢🌿Seasonality and morphological variation shape intraspecific seed dispersal networks in gopher tortoises

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We used an individual-based bipartite network approach to examine how morphological traits and seasonality shape seed dispersal interactions of gopher tortoises Gopherus polyphemus on Florida’s pine rockland ecosystem.

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Thank you Stephen! Pardon my ignorance but what's an IRT? Thanks!

Thank you so much for your help, Stephen!

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Which C++ compiler do you all use for R Stan? #rstats #r #stan #brms

I did not, but I will try that out! Thank you Lars.

Thanks for your reply, Alex! I left it as a continuous variable, but when I did treat it as a categorical factor, the effect diminishes. I'm quite perplexed to be honest.

The code for the model is attached.

I would like to have the same figure I just produced, but have them represent the temperature changes at each individual height (which it seems to be doing). I'm just confused by why the conditional_effects() function is changing the values of the heights.

Hey #rstats & #brms community! I'm modeling change in avg temp at three heights (1m, 3m, & 5m) on cypress trees using a GAM (one spline per height). I ran the code just fine, but when I extract the conditional_effects and plot it, the heights are modified in the output. Help?