mortality_publicReporting_natural

This table contains the natural mortality data for deer used to correct for reporting bias in the number of reported lynx kills in the public reporting data in Gehr et al. 2017 (Ecology and Evolution; see “mortality_publicReporting_lynx.txt”). Column “count” refers to the number of kills reported per Julian day (column “Julian”) for the years 1990-2010. The column “rm” refers to the moving average (rolling mean) of counts of reported natural mortalities over a window size of 31 days (i.e. one month). The column “rm” was used to calculate the ratio between the moving average of reported lynx kills (“rm” in the table “mortality_publicReporting_lynx.txt”) and the moving average of reported natural mortalities (“ratio_raw” in the table “mortality_publicReporting_lynx.txt”) used to account for reporting bias in the public reporting dataset.