redsquirrels: Kluane Red Squirrel Data

Description

A tidy data frame of life‐history and reproductive metrics for 7,799 individual red squirrels from the Kluane Red Squirrel Project (1987–present). Each row corresponds to one squirrel with associated pedigree links and reproductive success summaries. The original data are published under a CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication:

Usage

data(redsquirrels)

Arguments

Format

## `redsquirrels` A data frame with 7799 rows and 16 columns:

personID: Unique identifier for each squirrel
momID, dadID: Unique identifiers for each squirrel's parents
sex: Biological sex of the squirrel
famID: Unique identifier for each family. Derived from ped2fam
byear: Birth year of the squirrel
dyear: Death year of the squirrel
lrs: lifetime reproductive success for the squirrel
ars_mean: Mean annual reproductive success for the squirrel
ars_max: Maximum ARS value for the squirrel
ars_med: Median ARS value for the squirrel
ars_min: Minimum ARS value for the squirrel
ars_sd: Standard deviation of ARS values for the squirrel
ars_n: Number of ARS values for the squirrel
year_first: First year of ARS data for the squirrel
year_last: Last year of ARS data for the squirrel

Details

McFarlane, S. Eryn; Boutin, Stan; Humphries, Murray M. et al. (2015). Data from: Very low levels of direct additive genetic variance in fitness and fitness components in a red squirrel population [Dataset]. Dryad. <https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n5q05>