Chicks can be lost from other causes such as flooding, storms
etc. This function calculates the probability of death and then uses rbinom
to remove some chicks according to that probability.
Usage
calc_othermortality(CoD, alive, seasonlength)
Arguments
- CoD
Cause of death ("killed", "starved", "unattended", "parentdead", "abandoned", "other")
- alive
Flag to indicate if the chick is currently alive (1) or dead (0)
- seasonlength
Species parameter, number of timesteps in the breeding season
Value
A revised chick state list.
