Variability in the movement and foraging behaviour of female Eurasian lynx during the denning season across Europe

Animal movement and reproductive behaviour are crucial components of ecological and evolutionary processes. After parturition, the behaviour of reproducing females adapts to the needs of their offspring, including thermoregulation, protection, and food provisioning. However, little is known about how these adaptations vary across environmental conditions at larger scales in species with large distribution ranges. Here, we explored how female Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) movement and predation patterns change during the denning season. We analysed GPS telemetry data from two different climatic regions in Europe, cold and temperate, and evaluated the effect of explanatory variables on movement metrics and kill-to-den distances using generalized additive mixed models. Female lynx moved significantly longer daily distances in the cold region (central and northern Scandinavia) compared to the temperate region (southern Scandinavia and continental Europe), both before and after parturition. Repr..., , # Data from: Variability in the movement and foraging behaviour of female Eurasian lynx during the denning season across Europe 

This README file describes the provided datasets for the R analysis of Eurasian lynx den movement patterns, den use and feeding behaviour during the denning season, through Generalized Additive Models (GAMs).

### File name: den_duration_dataset.xlsx

Dataset Title: Data for the analysis of the duration of use of Eurasian lynx dens across Europe.

**Description of the data and file structure**

According to our paper, this dataset contains the information required to run the GAM models related to duration of use of lynx dens. It includes cluster id for each den (cluster_id), animal id (animal_id), climatic region (region), indication of whether the den was verified in the field (field_confirmed_den), den type (den_type), date of the start of use of each den (date_use_start), last date of use of each den (date_use_end), duration of use of each den (duration_de...,