Female Pied Flycatcher Forehead Patch Data for Phenotypic Selection Analysis

A dataset for testing phenotypic selection on a male-ornament trait in female pied flycatchers. It contains variables for individual birds, reproduction, and environmental factors, shared by author Iraida Redondo under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-19.

Use Cases

• Testing for phenotypic selection on female ornament traits based on variables like FPO (patch presence) and FPS (patch size).
• Analyzing the relationship between dispersal strategies (NatalDispersal) and reproductive success (Recruits, AnnualRelativeRecruits).
• Examining changes in ornament prevalence and size over time using the trajectory analysis files.
• Investigating the effect of breeding density (FicedulaDens, AllSpeciesDens) on fitness metrics.

Strengths

• Includes multiple analysis-ready subsets (e.g., FPO_all, FPS_FirstRep) for different research questions.
• Contains 20+ described variables covering individual traits, reproduction, and environmental context.
• Data is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the provided list after download.

Provenance

Source

Iraida Redondo via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely contains field observations of pied flycatchers, but the specific collection method is not detailed.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 09:37:04; freshness should be verified.