Data from: Factors affecting temporal use of feeding sites by wolves in the central Apennines, Italy
Description
Although we refrain from sharing actual Global Positioning System coordinates of studied wolves in our study area due to ther sensitive nature within a National Park, the database we share includes a list of 60 feeding sites, comprising both kill (n=17) and scavenging (n=43) sites used by wolves during winter months (2008-2011) in the Abruzzo Lazio and Molise National Parck, central Italy. We used these data to investigate the effect of ecological, environmental, and anthropogenic factors on the temporal patterns of feeding site use by wolves.
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Funding provided by: Wildlife Conservation Society
Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/01xnsst08
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Methods
Feeding sites used by wolves have been detected through field investigations in winter months of clusters of GPS locations from 8 GPS-collared wolves belonging to three different social categories (i.e., pack members, breeding pairs, and solitary floaters). Environmental (i.e., orography) and anthropogenic (i.e. distance to roads and settlements) varibles for each feeding site were obtained in a GIS environment about the feeding site centroid, and were successively used in GLMMs to assess their effect on (a) handling time (i.e., time spent by wolves at the feeding site), (b) recurrency of use (i.e., number of visits at a given feeding site), and (c) nocturnality of use (i.e., the proportion of noctural GPS location at a site).