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Data from - Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

Creators

  • 1. The Ohio State University
  • 2. Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • 3. University of Maryland, College Park
  • 4. Columbia University
  • 5. University of Washington
  • 6. Government of Northwest Territories
  • 7. Teton Raptor Center*
  • 8. SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  • 9. Alaska Department of Fish and Game
  • 10. National Park Service
  • 11. University of Alberta
  • 12. Aquila Environmental*
  • 13. Raptor View Research Institute*
  • 14. Landcare Research
  • 15. United States Fish and Wildlife Service
  • 16. Conservation Science Global, Inc.*
  • 17. Yukon Department of Environment
  • 18. Genome British Columbia
  • 19. HawkWatch International*

Description

We provide here the data used in analysis of 3 test cases, presented in the manuscript "Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic". We utilized the new Arctic Animal Movement Archive (AAMA), a growing collection of 201 standardized terrestrial and marine animal tracking studies from 1991–present. The AAMA supports public data discovery, preserves fundamental baseline data for the future, and facilitates efficient, collaborative data analysis. With three AAMA-based case studies, we document climatic influences on the migration phenology of eagles, geographic differences in adaptive response of caribou reproductive phenology to climate change, and species-specific changes in terrestrial mammal movement rates in response to increasing temperature.  

Notes

Data files for models associated with analyses reported in Davidson et al. (2020) "Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic". As relevant, files follow the vocabulary used at movebank.org:
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (2019) Movebank Attribute Dictionary, Version 2. Natural Environment Research Council. http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB

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eagles_summering_onsets.csv: This file contains data from the case study on long-term influence of decadal climate patterns on summering behavior in a migratory raptor. Records represent modeled summering behavior onsets golden eagles. Onset locations and dates were determined via a mechanistic range shift analysis, using 569,720 location estimates of 146 golden eagles. Attributes include

animal-taxon: The scientific name of the species on which the tag was deployed, as defined by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, www.itis.gov).
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000024

animal-id: An individual identifier for the animal, provided by the data owner. Units: none
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000016

timestamp: The date and time of the summering onset date. Format: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS, in UTC time.

location-lat: The geographic latitude of the summering onset location. Units: decimal degrees, WGS84 reference system
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000145

sensor-type: The type of sensor with which location data were collected.
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000170

animal-sex: The sex of the animal. Allowed values are m = male; f = female; u = unknown.
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000023 

animal-life-stage: Age class category for the animal-year assessed. For each animal, age at the first year corresponds with the animal-life-stage at time of deployment in the Movebank study, and is adjusted if needed for subsequent years to represent age transitions as described in Supplemental Materials.

previous-year: The year of the previous winter season for which Pacific Decadal Oscillation data were assessed. Equal to summering behavior year - 1.

winter-PDO: averaged mean monthly Pacific Decadal Oscillation data for the previous winter (i.e., November – March). Data from http://research.jisao.washington.edu/pdo

study-name: The name of the study participating in the AAMA on Movebank (movebank.org) in which the location data from which summering onsets were estimated are stored.
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000173


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caribou_parturitions.csv: This file contains data from the case study on large-scale geographic differences in parturition timing of barren-ground (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) and woodland (R. tarandus caribou) caribou. Records represent daily mean location for the day of estimated parturition.

animal-taxon: The scientific name of the species on which the tag was deployed, as defined by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, www.itis.gov).
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000024

animal-taxon-detail: A more specific name and/or reference for the taxon name provided by 'animal taxon'. This can be used, for example, to specify a subspecies or a taxon not supported by the ITIS.
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000025

animal-id: An individual identifier for the animal, provided by the data owner. Units: none
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000016

animal-nickname: An alternate identifier for the animal.
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000020

population: The population as referred to in the paper text.

barren-ground herd: The herd name for barren-ground caribou as referred to in the paper text. Note that the herd assignment for an individual does not always correspond to the Movebank study with the same name.

timestamp: The date and time of the parturition date. Format: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS, in UTC time.

doy: The Julian day of year.

year: The year.

height-above-msl: The estimated height of the tag above mean sea level, typically estimated by the tag. Units: meters
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000131
For consistency across studies, elevation data are taken from Canadian Digital Elevation Data at https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7f245e4d-76c2-4caa-951a-45d1d2051333 (Natural Resources Canada).

x.km: The east-west component of the parturition location, represented as the distance from the median location within each "population" group.

y.km: The north-south component of the parturition location, represented as the distance from the median location within each "population" group.

study-name: The name of the study participating in the AAMA on Movebank (movebank.org) in which the location data from which parturitions were estimated are stored.
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000173


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mammal_movement_rates.csv: This file contains data from the case study on temperature and precipitation response in movement rates of terrestrial mammals. Records represent daily movement rates for individuals calculated from original location estimates.

animal-taxon: The scientific name of the species on which the tag was deployed, as defined by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, www.itis.gov).
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000024

animal-taxon-detail: A more specific name and/or reference for the taxon name provided by 'animal taxon'. This can be used, for example, to specify a subspecies or a taxon not supported by the ITIS.
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000025

animal-id: An individual identifier for the animal, provided by the data owner. Units: none
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000016

year: The year.

season: The season (summer represented by July or winter represented by January).

doy: The day of year.

mnSL: Daily mean step length (meters).

mnDT: Daily mean sampling interval (minutes).

stdTemp: The daily maximum temperature (degrees Celsius), centered on means and scaled by 1 standard deviation. Temperature data from Daymet (http://daymet.ornl.gov).

stdSWE: The snow water equivalent (kg•m^-2), centered on means and scaled by 1 standard deviation. SWE data from Daymet (http://daymet.ornl.gov).

stdPrecip: The daily cumulative precipitation (mm), centered on means and scaled by 1 standard deviation. Precipitation data from Daymet (http://daymet.ornl.gov).

study-name: The name of the study participating in the AAMA on Movebank (movebank.org) in which the location data from which movement metrics were calculated are stored.
http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/MVB/current/MVB000173
 

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