Published 2024 | Version v2
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Latitudinal gradients in air density create "invisible topography" at sea level affecting animal flight costs

Description

Data and code supporting the findings of the study: 

For details about the attributes in the data files please see the "README.txt" file.

Code included in the study:

The R script:
"Shepard et al_Changing_air_density_affects_flight_costs_in_low_flying birds.R" is used to run the statistical tests and models presented in the study.

The R script: "Shepard et al_density matters at sea level_script_DensityAltitudeEstimation.R" , is used to estimate Density altitude based on the air density over the ocean downloaded from the ERA5 monthly means global re-analysis. For details please see the supplementary information of the study.

The R script: "EstimatePowerBasedOnAirDensityOverTheOcean.R" , is used to estimate flight power based on the air density over the ocean downloaded from the ERA5 monthly means global re-analysis. The data for this script is provided in the files: ERA5_AirDensityOverTheOcean_WithEstimatedPower_DJF_Months.csv, ERA5_AirDensityOverTheOcean_WithEstimatedPower_JJA_Months.csv and ERA5_AirDensityOverTheOcean_WithEstimatedPower_For_JJA_AndDJF_Months.csv

and the shapefile in the zip file: RedTailedTropicBirds_Distribution.zip

For details please see the supplementary information of the study.

Files

DatSum_Tropicbirds4Final.txt

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplemented by
Dataset: 10.5441/001/1.251 (DOI)

Funding

FLIGHT – The true costs of bird flight: From the laboratory to the field 715874
European Commission

Dates

Submitted
2023-11-10