Human-wildlife interactions on the tidal flats of the Bijagós archipelago: does shellfishing affect migratory shorebirds?

# Title of Dataset Human-wildlife interactions on the tidal flats of the Bijags archipelago: does shellfishing affect migratory shorebirds? Give a brief summary of dataset contents, contextualized in experimental procedures and results. ## Description of the data and file structure Data is structured in 3 separate sheets, refering to 3 different methodologies, described in the methods section of the main article. Description of "Hand-raking experiments" sheet: * Column "Species" refers to the hand-raked bivalve species (Comb or Lingron) * Column "Treatment" refers to the treatment of the plot (T = treated plot by hand-raking the sediment and colection of the target bivalve, C = control plot, not hand-raked) * Column "Day" refers to the time of sample collection (Day 1 = The day of the experiment; Day 15 = 15 days after the experiment; Day 0 = experimental plot hand-raked before receiving the treatment later that day) * Column "Core" refers to the numer of the collected sediment core (sequencial from 1 to 7) * Column "position" refers to the position of the sediment core sample (T= top 5cm of * the sediment corer; B = Bottom 10 cm of the sedimente corer) * Column "point" refers to the sampling point specific code (7 points collected in each plot/treatment) * Column "storage" refers to where the stogare code for posterior consultation (storage "field" refers to individuals measured in the field and not stored) * Column "sp" refers to the macrobenthos taxa found in the sediment sample Column * "TL" refers to the Total Length (in mm) of each individual found in the sediment sample Description of "Bivalve Size Measurments" sheet: * Column "Date" refers to the date when the bivalve was measured * Column "period" refers to the period of the migratory shorebird's stay in the Bijagos (Wintering or Fuelling, see methods on paper for further detail) * Column "site" refers to the site where the measured bivalve was collected * Column "species" refers to the species of the bivalve measured * Column "TL" refers to the Total Length (in mm) of each individual bivalve measured Description of "Mudflat presence" * Column "Date" refers to the date when the number of people on the mudflats was counted * Column "period" refers to the period of the migratory shorebird's stay in the Bijagos (Wintering or Fuelling, see methods on paper for further detail) * Column "site" refers to the site where the number of people on the mudflats was Counted * Column "time" refers to the time when the number of people on the mudflats were counted * Column "n" refers to the number of people of each category counted * Column "gender/age" refers to the social category of people present of the mudflat (W = women, M = man; K = kid) * Column "activity" refers to the activity each category of people was performing on the mudflat