repository for the Portal Rodent Phenology Project

Paper now published in Ecology titled: Shifts in competitive structures drive variation in species’ phenology published in Ecology

Goals:

1. to describe the breeding phenology of desert rodents under different biotic contexts; and
2. to determine the effects of abiotic (i.e., NDVI, weather variables) and biotic (i.e., biomass of competitors) factors on their breeding phenology

Folders:

1. analyses: all files related to exploratory/preliminary analyses (unorganized and poorly annotated)
2. figures: some of the manuscript figures
3. RScripts: all final data cleaning and data analyses scripts
4. ReproData: cleaned reproductive data used in building models

Relevant scripts:

1. data_curation_final.R: obtain cleaned and manipulated Portal rodent data and relevant covariates
2. data_cleaning_function_Supp.R: Sarah's code for cleaning individual-level data (to make sure all records of reproductive individuals are correct)
3. explore-lag models.R: used to determine the appropriate lag for weather covariates (warm and cool precip)
4. figure_prep.R: code for creating manuscript figures