Sedge Wren Home Ranges in the Brazilian Cerrado, 2008

The Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros in central Brazil is the study area for this dataset on the Sedge Wren (Cistothorus platensis). It contains home range data for 14 banded males tracked between February and December 2008, with mean home range sizes calculated using Minimum Convex Polygon and Kernel 95% methods. The data was collected by researcher Aline Fujikawa and published via an Open Access (green) license.

Use Cases

• Modeling seasonal variation in home range size based on dry and rainy season data
• Analyzing territorial overlap between neighboring male birds based on the small overlap mentioned
• Studying habitat selection by examining the absence of home ranges in recently burned grasslands
• Investigating residency patterns based on the persistence of five males throughout the study

Strengths

• Home range estimates are provided with specific mean sizes and standard deviations (e.g., 6.10 ± 2.09 ha for MCP)
• Data includes seasonal comparisons (dry vs. rainy season) and behavioral observations (monogamy, residency)
• Study design involved monitoring 14 individually banded birds over an 11-month period in 2008

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single-site, single-year study

Provenance

Source

Aline Fujikawa (via paperswithcode)

Collection Method

Field study tracking 14 banded male Sedge Wrens.

Time Range

February to December 2008

Geography

Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros, central Cerrado, Brazil