Droughts reshape apex predator space use and intraguild overlap

Droughts are increasing in frequency and severity globally due to climate change, leading to changes in resource availability that may have cascading effects on animal ecology. Resource availability is a key driver of animal space use, which in turn influences interspecific interactions like intraguild competition. Understanding how climate-induced changes in resource availability influence animal space use, and how species-specific responses scale up to affect intraguild dynamics, is necessary for predicting broader community-level responses to climatic changes. Although several studies have demonstrated the ecological impacts of drought, the behavioral responses of individuals that scale up to these broader-scale effects are not well known, particularly among animals in top trophic levels like large carnivores. Furthermore, we currently lack understanding of how the impacts of climate variability on individual carnivore behavior are linked to intraguild dynamics, in part because multi..., The dataset was collected from GPS collars from four African carnivore species. Fix rates varied between 5 minutes and 3 hours, and were regularized to 3 hour intervals. , , # Droughts reshape apex predator space use and intraguild overlap

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.k98sf7mgm](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.k98sf7mgm)

The dataset contains data for estimating the effect of drought (Standard Precipitation Index) on the 95% and 50% home range sizes of four African carnivore species (African wild dogs, cheetahs, leopards, and lions), the probability and amount of overlap between carnivore species' 95% and 50% home ranges, and the number of interspecific encounters at 200m and 400m distance thresholds. The dataset was collected from GPS collars from the four aforementioned African carnivore species. Fix rates varied between 5 minutes and 3 hours, and were regularized to 3 hour intervals. As each individual has different collar deployment lengths, we divided the data into monthly time periods, with these monthly periods beginning from the first date of each collar deployment.

## Description of the data and file structures

#### overlap\_95\_beta.csv

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