Movement and nutritional data of mule deer in Western Wyoming (December 2013–December 2021)

For species that inhabit environments where resource availability may be unpredictable, balance of resource allocation to life-history traits can have heightened consequences for survival, reproduction, and ultimately, fitness. Acquisition and allocation of energy to maintenance, capital gain, and reproduction should be in tune with the landscape an animal inhabits—environmental severity, food availability, and population size all influence the resources animals have and dictate the ways they should be allocated.
In seasonal environments, animals that experience periods of extreme resource limitation (e.g., harsh winters) may favor allocation of resources to body reserves to secure their survival at the cost of reproduction (i.e., risk-averse). In contrast, the same accumulation of body reserves may not be necessary to survive in relatively benign landscapes where instead, allocation to reproduction is favored (i.e., risk-prone).
According to theory of risk-sensitive allocation of reso..., Animal Capture and Handling
In March 2013, we captured 70 adult, female mule deer using helicopter net gunning. Each year following that initial capture event, we recaptured surviving individuals and captured new individuals to maintain a sample size of 70 animals in mid-March (i.e., spring) and early December (i.e., autumn) until December 2021. At the initial capture of any new animal, we extracted one incisiform canine to estimate age using cementum annuli (LaSharr et al. 2023a). At each capture event, we collected data on nutritional condition, measured body mass, and fit all animals with a GPS radiocollar programmed to take satellite fixes every 2 hours (Advanced Telemetry Systems, Isanti, Minnesota, USA, Telonics, Mesa, Arizona, USA, and Vectronic Aerospace, Berlin, Germany). GPS radiocollars weighed ≤ 2 kg (~3.0% of adult body mass in spring and ~2.6% of adult body mass in autumn).We measured nutritional condition using protocols for mule deer which include measuring subcutaneous ..., , # Movement and nutritional data of mule deer in Western Wyoming (December 2013–December 2021)

This dataset includes movement and nutrition data of mule deer collected in western Wyoming, USA from December 2013 to December 2021.

## Description of the Data and file structure

The movementdata.txt file includes the following columns: id, mst, x, and y. ID represents the unique id for the animal, mst is the collection date (MST) of the movement data, and x and y represent the x and y coordinates of the data. The projection of the data is NAD83 / UTM zone 12N - EPSG:26912. The movement data was saved as a .txt file to not truncate data when opened in Excel because it has > 1,000,000 rows. The first column in the .txt file indicates the row number.

The nutritiondata.csv file includes the following columns: id, year, change, SpringFat, Age, and Recruitment.

* id represents the unique id for the animal.
* Spring Fat represents the ingesta-free body fat of the animal when it was captured ...