Diel factors of wolf and moose kill rates

• Main Authors: Vander Vennen, Lucas M., Patterson, Brent R., Rodgers, Arthur R., Moffatt, Scott, Anderson, Morgan L., Fryxell, John M.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Dryad Digital Repository 2016
• Subjects: kill rate; daily activity pattern; ideal gas model; temporal predation pattern; prey detectability; encounter rate; Canis lupus; Alces alces
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.g5tj3/1; http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.g5tj3/1

Wolf and moose movement rate data collected from GPS collared animals in northern Ontario, and represent population-level average movement rate during each of the 16 time bins throughout the 24-hour cycle. Kill rate is the distribution throughout the 16 time bins of the time of kill from field-verified sites of wolves predating on moose. Crepuscular light conditions were calculated as the average proportion of a twilight period within each time bin, and total light conditions were calculated from a crude model assuming 0 for night, 0.5 for twilight, and 1 for daylight.