Alternative datasets

Download data on lemurs or petrels

Choose between two new datasets for your final assignment, or use your own data

If you don’t have your own field data to analyse, or your own data aren’t ready yet, choose one of these mini datasets to analyse for your final assigment at the end of this module

Includes covariates

The lemur case-study includes covariates, if you want to give yourself a more complex challenge than the petrel case-study offers

Petrels on Possession Island in the southern Indian Ocean

A white-chinned petrel floating on the blue sea

Data from surveys of white-chinned petrels, Procellaria aequinoctialis to assess changes in breeding density in response to bycatch mitigation measures

See footnotes for the associated manuscript1 and original dataset2

Lemurs in northwestern Madagascar

The head of a sportive lemur peering out of a tree hole

Melanie Seiler, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Data from surveys of Sahamalaza sportive lemur, Lepilemur sahamalaza, in Sahamalaza-Iles Radama National Park, northwestern Madagascar

See footnotes for the associated manuscript3 and original dataset4

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Footnotes

  1. Dasnon et al (2022) Fisheries bycatch mitigation measures as an efficient tool for the conservation of seabird populations, Journal of Applied Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14189↩︎

  2. Dasnon et al (2022). Fisheries bycatch mitigation measures as an efficient tool for the conservation of seabird populations [Dataset] Dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1zcrjdfts↩︎

  3. Hending et al (2024) Impact of forest fragmentation and associated edge effects on the population density of four nocturnal lemur species in North West Madagascar Animal Conservation https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12929↩︎

  4. Hending, Daniel (2024) Lemur population density in Sahamalaza-Iles Radama National Park, Madagascar [Dataset] Dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rr4xgxdg1↩︎