Individual and temporal variation in movement patterns of wild alpine reindeer and implications for disease management

Animal behaviour is important for prevalence and outbreaks of infectious diseases, for instance by affecting individual interactions. Increasing the knowledge of individual movement patterns can provide better insight into disease prevalence and spread, helping to target efforts to minimise disease outbreaks. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal prion disease affecting cervids. CWD is transmitted by animal-to-animal contact and through the environment, thus individual variation in space use and social associations may influence disease transmission patterns and infection risk. CWD was detected in Norwegian alpine reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in 2016, and eradication of the infected population was implemented. A 3:1 infection rate between males and females suggests sex-specific behavioural drivers. We utilised an extensive individual-based dataset of 149 GPS-marked wild reindeer to investigate individual variation in movement patterns in terms of inter- and intra-annual home range si..., This information is available in the Materials and Methods section in the associated article (DOI: 10.1111/ecog.06957). , , # Norwegian alpine reindeer home range size, overlap, and between-individual distances

## Description of the data and file structure

The datasets included here provide data from Norwegian wild alpine reindeer for analysing the following:

* Seasonal home range sizes (dataset is named \"Seasonal_HR_size_data\")
* Annual home range sizes (dataset is named \"Annual_HR_size_data\")
* Inter-individual overlap (dataset is named \"overlaptable_between_individuals\")
* Intra-individual home range overlap, i.e., site fidelity (datasets are named \"site_fidelity_NF\", \"site_fidelity_SH\", and \"site_fidelity_SR\", split into study populations)
* Daily distance between nearest male and female individual.

The files for the home range, between-individual overlap and distance analyses contain data from three populations of Norwegian wild alpine reindeer, whereas the files for the site fidelity analyses are separated into population-specific files (NF = Nordfjella, SH = Snøhetta, SR = Setesdal R...