Data from: Out of sight of wind turbines – reindeer response to wind farms in operation ...
To meet the expanding land use required for wind energy development a better understanding of the effects on terrestrial animals’ responses to such development is required. Using GPS-data from 50 freely ranging female reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in the Malå reindeer herding community, Sweden, we de...
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| Language: | English |
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Dryad
2019
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5337hv7 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.5337hv7 |
| Summary: | To meet the expanding land use required for wind energy development a better understanding of the effects on terrestrial animals’ responses to such development is required. Using GPS-data from 50 freely ranging female reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in the Malå reindeer herding community, Sweden, we determined reindeer calving sites and estimated reindeer habitat selection using resource selection functions (RSF). RSFs were estimated at both second- (selection of home range) and third-order (selection within home range) scale in relation to environmental variables, wind farm (WF) development phase (before construction, construction, and operation), distance to the WFs and at the second-order scale whether the wind turbines were in or out of sight of the reindeer. We found that the distance between reindeer calving site and wind farms increased during the operation phase, compared to before construction. At both scales of selection we found a significant decrease in habitat selection of areas in proximity of the ... : rsfdata_2nd_and_3rd_order_scaledata used for estimation of resource selection functions at the second- and third-order scale of selection (Table 3 and 4)gpsdatagps-positions used to identify the calving sites using the ResidenceTime-function in adehabitatLT in R ... |
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