Sex-specific resource strategies mediate home range sizes of an endangered carnivore across multiple scales

Home ranges reflect a trade-off between the costs and benefits associated with acquiring resources and can impact many ecological processes. These intrinsic and extrinsic factors shape how individuals form home ranges, leading to strategies such as maximizing resources across a broader area (resource maximization) or minimizing space use while still meeting energetic and reproductive needs (area minimization). Understanding drivers of spatiotemporal variation in home range size is essential for identifying landscape constraints on populations in rapidly changing systems. Despite this, few studies have concurrently examined how sex-specific home range strategies respond to environmental heterogeneity across multiple spatial and temporal scales. We estimated home ranges across multiple spatiotemporal scales and evaluated the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic drivers on sex-specific home range size for the federally endangered ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in the two remaining populati..., , # Data from: Sex-specific resource strategies mediate home range sizes of an endangered carnivore across multiple scales

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.1ns1rn95b](10.5061/dryad.1ns1rn95b)

## Description of the data and file structure

We collected GPS collar data from 34 individual (22 M, 12 F) ocelots and fit continuous-time movement models to individual ocelot GPS relocations at monthly, seasonal (3-month period), and half-year (6-month period) timeframes using the R (R Core Team 2024) package *ctmm* (Calabrese et al., 2016). We calculated autocorrelated kernel density estimators (aKDE). We compared the 50% and 95% aKDE isopleth to identify differences in spatial scale. We used Bayesian generalized linear mixed models to test the effect of sex, landscape, and climate variables on home range size. We fit a Gamma distribution with a log link because of non-negative and right-skewed home range sizes in separate models for each sex, and aKDE isopleth (50% and 95%) with individual identific...,