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...动物行为对于传染病的流行与暴发至关重要，例如通过影响个体间的互动。加深对个体移动模式的认知，能够为疾病流行与传播机制提供更深入的见解，助力制定针对性防控举措以最大限度减少疾病暴发。慢性消耗病（Chronic Wasting Disease, CWD）是一种致死性朊病毒疾病（prion disease），可感染鹿科动物。该病通过动物间直接接触以及环境途径传播，因此空间利用与社会交往的个体差异可能会影响疾病传播模式与感染风险。2016年，挪威阿尔卑斯野驯鹿（Rangifer tarandus）中检测到慢性消耗病，随即对受感染种群实施了根除行动。种群内雌雄感染比例为3:1，这提示存在性别特异性的行为驱动因子。本研究依托覆盖149头佩戴GPS追踪项圈的野生驯鹿的大规模个体级数据集，探讨个体间年度间与年度内活动家域（home range）模式的差异……相关详细信息可参见关联论文的材料与方法章节（DOI：10.1111/ecog.06957）。 # 挪威阿尔卑斯野鹿家域大小、重叠度与个体间距离 ## 数据与文件结构说明 本数据集收录挪威野生阿尔卑斯野鹿相关数据，用于开展以下分析： * 季节性家域面积（数据集命名为"Seasonal_HR_size_data"） * 年度家域面积（数据集命名为"Annual_HR_size_data"） * 个体间家域重叠度（数据集命名为"overlaptable_between_individuals"） * 个体内家域重叠度，即位点保真度（site fidelity），相关数据集按研究种群拆分为"site_fidelity_NF"、"site_fidelity_SH"与"site_fidelity_SR" * 雄性与雌性个体间的每日最近邻距离。 用于家域、个体间重叠度与距离分析的文件涵盖挪威野生阿尔卑斯野鹿三个种群的数据；而位点保真度分析文件则按种群拆分（NF = Nordfjella，SH = Snøhetta，SR = Setesdal R...）