Data for analysis in Barrie et al. (2025)

These files contain the data used for analysis in: Barrie EM, Krochuk BA, Jarrett C, Ferreira DF, Rodrigues P, Mufumu SL, Malanza SE, Akele AEN, Alene CEE, Brzeski KE, Cooper JC, Wolfe JD and Powell LL (2025) Specialized insectivores drive differences in avian community composition between primary and secondary forest in Central Africa. Front. Conserv. Sci. 6:1504350. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2025.1504350At a long-term bird banding station on mainland Equatorial Guinea, we captured over 3200 birds across 6 field seasons in selectively logged secondary forest and in largely undisturbed primary forest. Our objective was to understand how community composition changed with human disturbance—with particular interest in the guilds and species that indicate primary rainforest.banding_data.csv consists of the raw banding/capture data from mist-netting and ringing in the field, including info on time and date of capture, net lane and net number, species, ring number, and recaptures.buffers.csv lists (for each net lane) the amount of overlap with other nearby net lanes and the proportion used for the offset in statistical analysis. See Barrie et al. (2025) for methodology.days.csv lists all combinations of net lanes and dates run and whether these were "Day 1" or "Day 2" (all net lanes were run for two consecutive days per year.effort.csv contains data on effort in terms of mist net hours, with the opening and closing times and duration open for every net run.forest_type.csv lists each net lane and whether it was in primary or secondary forestguilds.csv contains data on the dietary guild classifications of all focal species analysed in Barrie et al. (2025), which is needed to merge with banding_data.csv in R and create the data frame for analysis