Data from: Stay or fly away? Impact of human disturbance on shorebird individuals and populations

These data comprise the data of four chapters from the PhD thesis
from van der Kolk (2021) entitled ‘Stay or fly away? Impact of human
disturbance on shorebird individuals and populations.’ The thesis focusses
on quantifying the impacts of human disturbance on oystercatchers. This
dataset contains data from chapters 4, 5, 7 and 10. For Chapter 4 field
observations were done to observe how shorebirds responded to aircraft
overflights at different sites. The data provides an overview of the
disturbance probability (i.e. the probability that birds took flight)
following aircraft overflights, for different bird species, locations and
aircraft types. These data were used to test whether there was a
relationship between aircraft overflight frequency and disturbance
probability. For Chapters 5 and 7 oystercatchers were equipped with GPS
trackers to study the effects of disturbance on space use. The data of
Chapter 5 provides GPS locations of oystercatchers in relation to the
timings of military exercises. These data were used to quantify whether
oystercatchers avoided the military training area during and immediately
after military exercises. The data of Chapter 7 contains GPS locations of
oystercatchers in relation to the moment of high tide and provides the
roosting location. These data were used to study whether oystercatchers
avoided a disturbed roost site in the tourist season. For Chapter 10 an
individual based model was constructed that was used to quantify whether
disturbance affected winter mortality of oystercatchers. The individual
based model was written in Python. The data contains the full code of the
model, as well as all input files needed to run the model.