Herbivore GPS and Environmental Data for Resource Selection Analysis

UTM coordinates and environmental covariates for a large herbivore, supporting a study on climate change and feeding site effects. The dataset includes raster layers for historical and contemporary distances from feeding sites with a 10-meter spatial resolution. It was created by Julius G. Bright Ross of Harvard University for a published ecological study.

Use Cases

• Modeling wildlife resource selection functions based on UTM coordinates and environmental covariates.
• Analyzing shifts in animal distribution relative to anthropogenic feeding sites using historical and contemporary raster layers.
• Studying the interaction between climate change and food manipulation on species range limits.

Strengths

• Includes raster data with a specific 10-meter spatial resolution.
• Contains both contemporary and historical data layers for comparative analysis.
• Data is associated with a peer-reviewed scientific publication.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Julius G. Bright Ross, Harvard University

Collection Method

Data likely collected via GPS tracking and processed in ArcGIS for resource selection function analysis.

Geography

Data uses UTM zone 32N (32632) projection, suggesting a location between 0°E and 6°E longitude.