Project description

Using longitudinal data on roe deer Capreolus capreolus from two populations facing markedly different environmental contexts, we tested whether baseline GC levels negatively correlate with body mass – a trait positively associated with demographic individual performance – on the short- to long-term. In support, higher baseline GC concentrations were asso- ciated to lighter body mass, both measured during the same capture event, in adults of both populations. Overall, we showed that despite the marked environmental and demographic differences between populations and despite the between-sex differences in life history (i.e. reproductive tactics), the relationship between body mass and GCs is consistent across environmental contexts, but might differ according to the life his- tory stage of an individual.

Dataset

File: dataset_roedeer_fgm_mass_anonym.csv

The deposit contains the anonymised dataset to replicate the article mentioned above.

It includes:

• idkit: the ID of the kit used for sampling
• numind: Roe deer ID
• pop: Population (3F: Trois-Fontaines, C: Chizé)
• cohorte: cohort
• qualite_cohorte: cohort environmental quality defined as the mean fawn mass standardised for the date of capture
• sexe: sex
• annee: year of capture
• datejulienne: Julian date of capture
• qualite_an: year of capture environmental quality defined as the mean fawn mass standardised for the date of capture
• ageannee: age (years)
• masse: mass (kg)
• id_bioch: ID for biochemical analyses
• dureemin: time between capture and sampling (min)
• neutroP: Proportion of neutrophil
• lymphoP: Proportion of lymphocyte
• FGM_Priority: Whether faecal sampling is prioritize towards stress analyses or other analyses (nutrition, parasitism, ...)
• FGMngg: FGM levels (ng/g)
• NA values indicates that no measurements could be performed on the field or that the age or year of birth (cohort) of an individual was unknown because it has not been captured as fawn or juvenile

Contact:

For all queries: Lucas D. Lalande - lalande.luke@gmail.com