Ecology of community reassembly: Movements and diets of megafauna during a decade of restoration in Mozambique

This dataset documents large-herbivore movement, morphology, condition, fate, and diet during community reassembly in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique (2013–2023), following megafaunal declines during civil war and subsequent restoration, including apex predator reintroductions beginning in 2018. The study period spans substantial interannual climatic variability, including extreme wet and dry years.
The movement dataset comprises GPS telemetry records from 277 individuals across seven herbivore species (Cape bushbuck, nyala, greater kudu, common eland, waterbuck, plains zebra, and African elephant), with median monitoring durations ranging from 13 to 707 days and median location counts per individual ranging from 1,171 to 33,122 fixes. For 302 immobilized individuals, we provide morphological measurements (chest girth, body length, hind-foot length, body mass), reproductive and nutritional condition metrics (ultrasound measurements, palpation scores), and fate data (mortality date a..., , , # Long-term movement, climate, morphology, and diet metabarcoding data from Gorongosa National Park (2013–2023)

Access this dataset on Dryad: DOI: 10.5061/dryad.m905qfv85

Data are associated with: Hutchinson et al. 2026. *Ecology.* Please see publication for full details of methodlogy, study design, and data use.

This repository contains long-term ecological data collected in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. The dataset includes historical and contemporary rainfall data, GPS telemetry data from seven herbivore species, capture and morphological measurements, dietary DNA metabarcoding data (processed and raw), plant barcode taxonomy assignments, primer diagnostics, and complete bioinformatic filtering scripts.

These files document environmental variation, animal movement, demography, nutritional condition, and trophic interactions during megafaunal recovery.

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# Description of the data and file structure

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* Missing values are coded as `NA`.
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