Ranges Overview

The Ranges Interface

Ranges now opens with what was known as the Input & Graphics screen in previous versions of Ranges where users can create, import, modify and export data and view both input and output data numerically and graphically.

Buttons along the top allow the user to access the other areas of Ranges:

• About gives details on your licence, the Ranges version and how to contact us.
• Location performs analyses on location files, including inter-location measurements and estimates of home ranges based on concave and convex polygons, ellipses, cluster analysis and harmonic mean and kernel contouring.
• Overlap analyses and displays the overlap of range edges created in Location Analysis. There are options to create and view an overlap matrix which records the overlap of the ranges within an edge file.
• Interaction analyses spatial interactions between animals or between patterns of locations (spatial and temporal) for individual animals.
• Habitat analyses the habitat content of maps, map sections, home ranges created in ‘Location analysis’, and in the areas immediately around locations.
• Modelling allows resource area dependence and Kaplan Meier survival analyses.
• Statistics displays the statistics file for the most recently run analysis. Other statistics files, in comma-separated variable (.csv) format can be opened here.
• Log shows the log for all analyses since the session started.
• Help links to these on-line help files. Note that a set of help files is also packaged with Ranges but these are not as up-to-date as those online.

When an analysis is run, a Progress window will popup giving progress messages, calculation summaries, warnings and errors. If the analysis runs successfully, the progress window will close and the results, usually Statistics, often Graphics and sometimes a Chart, will be displayed. The contents of the Progress window can be accessed after the analysis in the Log.

Settings changed in analysis windows and files opened in the statistics window will remain unchanged if the window is closed and then re-opened.