Multistate modeling of Florida scrub-jay adult survival and breeding transitions

Metadata for data file “MS4APR2020 ALL ENTER 2 STATES.txt” for the research published in Ecosphere Article ECS21-0698 Multistate modeling of Florida scrub-jay adult survival and breeding transitions David R. Breininger1†, Geoffrey M. Carter1, Stephanie A. Legare1 William V. Payne1, Eric D. Stolen1, Daniel J. Breininger2, James E. Lyon3 1Herndon Solutions Group, LLC, NASA Environmental and Medical Contract, NEM-022, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899, U.S.A. 2Department of Mathematics, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne FL, 32899 U.S.A. 3Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville FL 32901, U.S.A. † Corresponding author: e-mail: [e-mail] The data uses input file format described in the Program MARK manual (White and Burnham 1999, Cooch and White 2006). Each record (row) starts with an adult bird’s capture history, followed by group variables (each bird belongs to only one group) and then covariates, which here are all time specific. Time starts with 2001 and ends with 2015. Periods “.” in the capture history represented birds that were censored because the study sites were discontinued. The first 15 columns represent states from 2001 to 2015 where “I” refers to nonbreeder, “2” refers to breeder and “0” occurs when the bird is not observed. Spaces occur after the capture history and between group variables and covariates. The first group variable identifies males if given a "1". The second group variable identifies females if given a :1". The third and final group membership identifies birds of unknown sex if given a "1". All following data refer to time-specific covariates except for the semicolon at the end of each individual's record. The first 14 covariates refer to whether a bird resided on the study site edge (0) or interior (1). The 2nd set of 14 covariates refer density (number of pairs/potential pairs) within the local population. The 3rd set of 14 covariates refer to population breeder mortality rates (number of banded breeders that died/number of banded breeders). The final set of 14 covariates refer to mean family group size of adults in each local population.