Code and data for "Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals"

Content

• The data (distributed under CC BY-NC-SA, see COPYING) are available in the Data folder
• The R code is available in the Analyses/Scripts R folder
• The STAN models are available in the Analyses/STAN models folder

(Both the R and STAN code is distributed under GPL-3, see COPYING and GPL)

Data description

A description of the data is attached as an attribute to the R serialised data object Data/alldata_final.rds and contain the following information:

• DataID Internal ID for each dataset received for the meta-analysis, can correspond to several species and populations at once
• Species Scientific name of the species
• Population Loose name for the location of the studied population
• Year Breeding year, rebased as integer for some datasets
• ID Breeding female ID, randomly anonymised for each dataset
• Pheno Phenological trait (parturition or lay date, depending on the dataset), provided as a date rebased on the current year
• Fitness Fitness measurement (number of offspring surviving to fledge or wean, or to the year after, depending on the dataset)

Contacts

In the best interests of everyone, please contact the copyright holders (see COPYING) if you want to re-analyse the data for any other purpose than replication of the study, so as to avoid redundant, wasted work and to have a guided understanding of the biological sense behind the data.