Living under the scope: behavior affects survival in a heavily harvested and long-lived ungulate

The spatiotemporal behavior of game species may play a critical role in their survival throughout the hunting season. Where humans are the most dominant predators, avoidance of landscape features that allow hunters access to hunting grounds can be key to increasing survival. However, in Sweden there is limited knowledge about how hunters impact populations through selection of behavioral traits. In this system, hunting pressure is generally high, and approximately 30% of the moose (Alces alces) population is harvested per year. To test for differences in habitat selection in relation to survival under varying levels of hunting pressure in this long-lived game species, we analyzed 10 years of individual-based movement data of adult male and female moose in southern Sweden. We used integrated Step Selection Functions to analyze habitat selection in four consecutive time periods (before the rutting season, during the rut, during the first three weeks of the hunting season and the following..., , , # Living under the scope: behavior affects survival in a heavily harvested and long-lived ungulate

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8q47](10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8q47)

This dataset includes 2 R-scripts and 5 datasets to perform the analyses conducted in the accompanying paper. All scripts are run on R version 4.4.1

All scripts automatically call the needed respective datasets.

## Description of the data and file structure

### File: hsa.R

**Description:** Script to run habitat selection analysis. Call the datasets: all_plots_data.rds, high.rds, low.rds, pre-rut.rds and rut.rds

### File: all\_plots\_data.rds

**Description:** fitted iSSF for all animals across all years.

Used in scripts

* OBJECT_ID = animal collar ID
* Sex = sex of the animal (male/female)
* Hunt_year = the year in which the hunting season could take place. Equal to year, used to match NDVI and dist_forest
* ta\_ = turning angles between GPS positions
* costa\_ = cosine transformed ta\_
* sl\_ = meters between GPSposi...,