Shorebird survey data from Foxe Basin and Rasmussen Lowlands, Nunavut - 1994-97 and 2019.

Data used in the manuscript "Climate-related range shifts in Arctic-breeding shorebirds", submitted to Diversity and Distributions, June 2022. Data was funded and collected by Environment and Climate Change Canada

Metadata:

species - 4 letter codes denoting the observed shorebird species. See https://www.birdpop.org/docs/misc/Alpha_codes_eng.pdf

binomial - Binomial nomenclature identifying the genus and species of the observed shorebird

sti - Species Temperature Index. Calculated as the mean temperature with in the species breeding range. Temperature data came from the WorldClim 2.1 data set (Fick, S.E. and R.J. Hijmans, 2017. WorldClim 2: new 1km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 37 (12): 4302-4315). Shorebird breeding range data came from BirdLife International (BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World. 2020. “Bird Species Distribution Maps of the World. Version 2020.1.” http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/requestdis.)

plot - Plot identification number, as part of Environment and Climate Change Canada's Program for Regional and International Shorebird Monitoring program (PRISM).

time_period - Denotes which time period the surveys took place in

region - Denotes which region the surveys took place in

plot_area_km2 - Area of the surveyed plot in km2

plot_habitat - Surveyors estimated the proportion of each plot covered by upland and lowland habitat. Plots were the categorized as upland or lowland depending on which habitat type was predominant

n_birds - The number of breeding birds of this species that were observed on plot during the survey.

presence - A species was identified as present if one or more individuals of that species were present during the survey.

latitude - Latitude of the plot corner

longitude - Longitude of the plot corner

coordinate_type - Which corner of the plot are the coordinates for?