Data and code for analysis of spatiotemporal variation in traits and environmental variables in European hole-nesting passerines

• Main Authors: Vriend, Stefan J. G., Grøtan, Vidar, Gamelon, Marlène, Adriaensen, Frank, Ahola, Markus P., Álvarez, Elena, Bailey, Liam D., Barba, Emilio, Bouvier, Jean-Charles, Burgess, Malcolm D., Bushuev, Andrey, Camacho, Carlos, Canal, David, Charmantier, Anne, Cole, Ella F., Cusimano, Camillo, Doligez, Blandine F., Drobniak, Szymon M., Dubiec, Anna, Eens, Marcel, Eeva, Tapio, Erikstad, Kjell Einar, Ferns, Peter N., Goodenough, Anne E., Hartley, Ian R., Hinsley, Shelley A., Ivankina, Elena, Juškaitis, Rimvydas, Kempenaers, Bart, Kerimov, Anvar B., Kålås, John Atle, Lavigne, Claire, Leivits, Agu, Mainwaring, Mark C., Martínez-Padilla, Jesús, Matthysen, Erik, Oers, Kees van, Orell, Markku, Pinxten, Rianne, Reiertsen, Tone Kristin, Rytkönen, Seppo, Senar, Juan Carlos, Sheldon, Ben C., Sorace, Alberto, Török, János, Vatka, Emma, Visser, Marcel E., Sæther, Bernt-Erik
• Other Authors: Research Council of Norway, National Science Centre (Poland), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Fundación Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigación y el Desarrollo, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (España), Observatoire de Recherche Montpelliérain de l'Environnement (France), Russian Science Foundation, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK), University of Antwerp, Research Foundation - Flanders, Norwegian Environment Agency, Government of Norway, Max Planck Society, Swedish Research Council, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Australian Research Council, Vriend, Stefan J. G. [e-mail]
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Figshare 2022
• Subjects: Life History Traits; Spatial Synchrony; Passerines; Climatic variables; Weather variables; Phenology; Laying Date; Clutch Size; Fledgling Number; Life Histories; Population Ecology; Cornes; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/357489; https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14972259.v1; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007660; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003130; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006769; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000923; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004794; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000277; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100008767; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004189; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004281

Files: trait_data.csv – a comma-delimited file with population-specific annual fitness-related trait data. Traits included: laying date (LD, laying date of the first egg, where 1 = April 1st), clutch size (CS, number of eggs) and fledgling number (FN, number of nestlings 13-16 days after hatching). Annual values for these traits were based on data from individual broods that were not subjected to experimental manipulations (e.g. clutch size manipulation or cross-fostering). Fledgling numbers were based on broods with at least one fledgling.-- location_data.csv – a comma-delimited file with latitude and longitude (in decimal degrees) for all 44 locations.-- climate_data.csv – a comma-delimited file with location-specific annual climate data. Climate variables included: North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index, mean temperature (in degrees Celsius) and mean precipitation (in mm). For each climate variable, we give the average over daily values in February-May.-- data_information.csv – a comma-delimited file with a supplementary table on data owners and geographical information per location, study length per population, and sample sizes per trait, species, and location.-- analysis.R - an R file with code to run analyses of temporal variation in trait values, effects of climate variables on trait values, and spatial synchrony in trait values.-- Climate data sources: Daily NAO-indices were extracted from the Climate Prediction Center of the National Weather Service (https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov).-- Daily mean temperature and mean precipitation were extracted from the E-OBS gridded dataset version 20.0e (Cornes et al. 2018, DOI:10.1029/2017JD028200).-- Daily mean precipitation for Vlieland (Loc: VLI) was extracted from a Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI) weather station (Oost-Vlieland; https://www.knmi.nl/nederland-nu/klimatologie/monv/reeksen).-- See README.docx for more detail. Annual trait data, location information, and climate data from 86 populations of blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus, n = 31), great ...