READ ME: Survival, home ranges, and habitat use of white-tailed deer fawns in central Iowa

Citation
McGovern PG, Dinsmore SJ, Blanchong JA. Survival of white-tailed deer fawns in central Iowa, PLoS ONE http://dx.doi.org/10.25380/iastate.9827243

Author Information
Patrick G. McGovern, Stephen J. Dinsmore, Julie A. Blanchong
Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University
Corresponding author: Julie Blanchong, julieb@iastate.edu

Fawn_home_ranges.csv
Content- .csv spreadsheet of fawn home range size, habitat content for each fawn in three survival intervals
Columns and explanation-
Fawn_ID- unique identification of each fawn; F designates female, M designates male
Interval- survival interval (0-30 days, 0-60 days, 0-7 months) for which home range calculated
Area- area of fawn home range in hectares. 95% kernel density areas were calculated using the least squares cross validation (LSCV) bandwidth estimator in Geospatial Modeling Environment (GME; version 0.7.4, Spatial Ecology LLC); the area of each home range was calculated using ArcGIS (version 10.3, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, USA) using a 3 m high-resolution land cover raster layer (https://geodata.iowa.gov/dataset/high-resolution-land-cover-iowa-2009)
WATER, WETLAND, GRASSLAND, AGRICULTURE, BARREN/FALLOW, STRUCTURE, ROADS/IMPERVIOUS, BACKGROUND- columns represent amount of each habitat in a fawn’s home range; the habitat composition of each home range was calculated using ArcGIS (version 10.3, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, USA) using a 3 m high-resolution land cover raster layer (https://geodata.iowa.gov/dataset/high-resolution-land-cover-iowa-2009)
Sex- fawn sex
Year- year data are from

Fawn_locations.csv
Content- .csv spreadsheet of all fawn locations
Columns and explanation- 
Fawn_ID- unique identification of each fawn; F designates female, M designates male
Time- time data collected
UTM_Northing, UTM_Easting- location information of fawn in Universal Transverse Mercator units
Habitat_Type- type of habitat fawn was located in

Fawn_mortalities.csv
Content- .csv spreadsheet of fawn mortalities
Columns and explanation-
Fawn_ID- unique identification of each fawn; F designates female, M designates male
Date_Detect- date mortality detected
Suspected_Cause- suspected cause of death

Program MARK files for survival estimation
Content- files for fawn survival estimation in Program MARK (http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/) for three survival intervals (0-30 days, 0-60 days, 0-7 months); a staggered entry design was used where individuals entered the analysis on the date captured; all fawns with dropped or lost collars were left-censored; a buffer was created around each fawn location in ArcGIS to calculate the proportion of available woodland and agricultural habitat; buffer size was based on mean fawn movement in each survival interval (120 m 0-30 days, 155 m 0-60 days, 170 m 0-7 months); in cases where a fawn was located more than once in a day the location closest to noon for was selected for buffer creation
File explanation (1 of each for each survival interval)-
.dbf file- this file stores the Results browser information from the MARK fawn survival estimation analysis; includes model names, number of parameters in the models, model AIC values
.fpt file- this file contains the details of all of the survival models that were analyzed; includes summary of the input data and all parameter estimates