Data for: Seasonally mediated niche partitioning in a vertically compressed pelagic predator guild

Niche partitioning among closely related, sympatric species is a fundamental concept in ecology, and its mechanisms are of broad interest for understanding ecosystem functioning and predicting the impacts of human-driven environmental change. However, identifying mechanisms by which top marine predators partition available resources has been especially challenging given the difficulty of quantifying resource use of large pelagic animals. In the eastern tropical Pacific (ETP), three large, highly mobile and ecologically similar pelagic predators (blue marlin (Makaira nigricans), black marlin (Istiompax indica) and sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus)) coexist in a vertically compressed habitat. To evaluate each species’ ecological niche, we leveraged a decade of recreational fisheries data, multi-year satellite tracking with high-resolution dive data, and stable isotope analysis. Fishery interaction and telemetry-based three-dimensional seasonal utilization distributions suggested high spa..., , , # Data for: Seasonally mediated niche partitioning in a vertically compressed pelagic predator guild

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## Description of the data and file structure

Across all files, NA indicates no data were obtained for the given cell.

In \"Logan et al_TimeSeries_DepthTemp.csv\"

* Day - Date
* Ptt - Satellite tag ID number, unique for each individual
* Depth - depth in meters of the time series messages received
* DateTime - Date and Time of time series messages received
* Day1 - Date
* Hour - Hour of Day
* month - month of year
* time - value that increases daily for inclusion of time since tagging in models
* season - season of the year, based on month. Wet and Dry.
* tag_seaon - indicates which tagging year each fish was tagged in
* ascention - unique ID for each fish

In \"Logan et al_IndividualDiveCharacterisitics.csv\", each row holds information about 1 individual dive

* begdesc - date and time of when a dive descent began
* enddesc - date and time of when a dive...