Chick mortality as a result of adults not attending the nest
calc_unattendmortality.RdIf a chick is left alone at the nest, there is an increased risk of death from predation etc. This function takes the chicks who are not fully attended by the adults, calculates the probability of death and then uses rbinom to remove some of those chicks.
Arguments
- CoD
Cause of death
- alive
Flag to indicate if the chick is currently alive (1) or dead (0)
- unattend_hrs
Number of hrs the chick was left unattended
- max_hrs
Species parameter: Critical time threshold for unattendance at nest above which a chick is assumed to die through exposure or predation