The predator activity landscape predicts the anti‐predator behavior and distribution of prey in a tundra community ...

• Main Authors: Clermont, Jeanne, Grenier-Potvin, Alexis, Duchesne, Éliane, Couchoux, Charline, Dulude-De Broin, Frédéric, Beardsell, Andréanne, Bêty, Joël, Berteaux, Dominique
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2021
• Subjects: FOS: Biological sciences; Anti-predator behavior; Arctic fox; artificial prey experiment; nest distribution; predation risk; predation-risk effects; predator activity landscape; predator-prey space race; Arctic; Berteaux; Arctic Fox; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vdncjsxvd; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.vdncjsxvd

Predation shapes communities through consumptive and non-consumptive effects. In the latter case, prey respond to perceived predation risk through proactive or reactive risk management strategies occurring at different spatial and temporal scales. The predator-prey space race and landscape of fear concepts are useful to better understand how predation risk affects prey behavioral decisions and distribution. We assessed predation-risk effects in a terrestrial Arctic community, where the arctic fox is the main predator of ground-nesting birds. Using high frequency GPS data, we estimated a predator activity landscape corresponding to fox space use patterns, and validated with an artificial prey experiment that this predator activity landscape correlated with the predation risk landscape. We then investigated the effects of the fox activity landscape on multiple prey species, by assessing the anti-predator behavior of a main prey (snow goose) actively searched for by foxes, and the nest distribution of several ... : The datasets (articificial prey experiment, goose behavior and bird nest distribution) provided here contain raw data used in the models presented in the article "The predator activity landscape predicts the anti-predator behavior and distribution of prey in a tundra community". They were used to model the effect of fox activity landscape (intensity of fox space use) on the probability of predation of bait (using and artificial prey experiment), goose nest defense behavior and bird nest distribution. Refer to the article for more details on each analysis. Arctic fox GPS data are available through the Movebank Data Repository at Berteaux, D. 2020, Arctic fox Bylot-GPS tracking, Movebank Study ID 1241071371. Shapefiles of our study site (e.g. polygons of ponds and lakes and islet locations) can be made available upon request. ...