DeerMortalityData

This table contains the mortality data of 65 collared deer used to build the cox proportional hazard model in Gehr et al. 2018 (Behavioral Ecology). The column nr_days refers to the number of days a deer was monitored whereas entry_day and exit_day refer to the day the animal entered or left the study relative to the starting date of the study (30 November 2011). Fate refers to the fate of the animal (1 indicates died of non-lynx related causes, 0 indicates either alive at the end of monitoring or killed by lynx). Mort_cause refers to the cause of mortality. The code for mortalities: 2=disease/starvation, 3=road kill, 6=lynx kill, 7=dog kill, 10=hunting, 11=unknown. Human_risk refers to the mean human disturbance index value for all locations for each deer (composite of house density and distance to the closes road). Mean alti refers to the mean altitude of all locations for each deer. Mean_pr refers to the mean predation risk value (based on a lynx resource selection function) of all locations of each deer. Human_risk, mean_alti and mean_pr need to be scaled (mean=0 and SD=1) for the survival model.