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Fitness costs and benefits of intergroup interactions in banded mongooses in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, 2000-2019
This is a dataset on mortality costs and reproductive success from intergroup conflict in banded mongooses, collected from a wild population of banded mongooses on the Mweya Peninsula, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda between 2000-2019. We observed naturally occurring, aggressive interactions between social groups and recorded data on individual mortality occurring during and as a result of fighting. We used long term observations of reproductive events to determine individual reproductive success, measured as the total number of offspring assigned to each individual over the lifetime, and the number of offspring born to each individual from extra-group mating. We recorded data on oestrus events in social groups to determine when focal and rival groups were in oestrus simultaneously, and whether they were involved in an intergroup interaction with each other. These data were collected to examine the fitness costs and benefits of intergroup conflict. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-10-07
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6
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- doi: / 10.5285/a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6
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Thompson, F.J., Cant, M.A. (2021). Fitness costs and benefits of intergroup interactions in banded mongooses in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, 2000-2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Exeter
Thompson, F.J. Author University of Exeter
Cant, M.A. Author University of Exeter
Thompson, F.J. Point of contact University of Exeter
Owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Thompson, F.J., Cant, M.A. (2021). Fitness costs and benefits of intergroup interactions in banded mongooses in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, 2000-2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6
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- Text, table
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 2000-01-01
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- 2019-12-31
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- WGS 84
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6.zip Supporting information
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- 2010-12-08
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Intergroup interactions were recorded ad libitum during group observations between 2000 and 2019. We recorded the identities of the interacting groups, the identities of individuals that were killed during or as a result of the intergroup interaction, and their sex. We calculated the rate of mortality from intergroup conflict for males and females. We observed group reproductive events and determined the number of offspring that each individual in our population had over the course of their lifetime. We also determined how many of each individual’s offspring was a result of extra group mating. We recorded the number of intergroup interactions each individual was involved in over their lifetime. We observed group oestrus events and determined for each focal and rival group pair that were involved in an intergroup interaction the number of days they were in each of four oestrus states: focal group in oestrus, rival group in oestrus; focal group in oestrus, rival group not in oestrus; focal group not in oestrus, rival group in oestrus; focal group not in oestrus, rival group not in oestrus. We also determined the number of intergroup interactions each rival and focal group pair were involved in during each oestrus state.
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- a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6 XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T09:22:56
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- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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