Ungulate spatiotemporal responses to contrasting predation risk from wolves and snow leopards ...

• Main Authors: Kachel, Shannon, Bayrakcismith, Rana, Kubanychbekov, Zairbek, Kulenbekov, Rahim, McCarthy, Tom, Weckworth, Byron, Wirsing, Aaron
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2022
• Subjects: Panthera uncia; Predator facilitation; Multiple-predator effects; Canis lupus; predation risk; risk allocation; landscape of fear; Predation risk effects; FOS: Biological sciences; Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.tb2rbp044; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.tb2rbp044

Spatial responses to risk from multiple predators can precipitate emergent consequences for prey (i.e., multiple-predator effects, MPEs) and mediate indirect interactions between predators. How prey navigate risk from multiple predators may therefore have important ramifications for understanding the propagation of predation-risk effects (PREs) through ecosystems. The interaction of predator and prey traits has emerged as a potentially key driver of anti-predator behaviour but remains underexplored in large vertebrate systems, particularly where sympatric prey share multiple predators. We sought to better generalize our understanding of how predators influence their ecosystems by considering how multiple sources of contingency drive prey distribution in a multi-predator-multi-prey system. Specifically, we explored how two sympatric ungulates with different escape tactics – vertically agile, scrambling ibex (Capra sibirica) and sprinting argali (Ovis ammon) – responded to predation risk from shared predators ... : Data and scripts underlying the manuscript "Ungulate spatiotemporal responses to contrasting predation risk from wolves and snow leopards." The data provided are derived from spatiotemporal location data recorded October 2015–October 2018 for snow leopards (Panthera uncia), wolves (Canis lupus), Siberian ibex (Capra sibirica), and argali (Ovis ammon) in and around the Sarychat-Ertash Reserve in the Jeti-Oguz region of the Issyk Kul Province of the Kyrgyz Republic. For wolves and snow leopards, location data were recorded via GPS collars (Vectronic) set to attempt 1 fix for 180 s every 4 h (wolves) or 5 h (snow leopards). In total, 7 snow leopards and 2 wolves were collared. Ibex and argali location data were documented via direct observations recorded during point and transect surveys. Raw location data are not provided in compliance with permitting agreements. ...