DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3tx95x6n8
title: Data from: Contrasting patterns of female house mouse spatial organisation among outbreaking and stable populations

description: The size and distribution of home ranges reflects how individuals within a
 population use, defend, and share space and resources, and may thus be an
 important predictor of population-level dynamics. In eruptive species like
 the house mouse in Australian grain growing regions, contrasting space use
 between stable and outbreaking populations allows us to test predictions
 regarding social or life history strategies that may contribute to an
 outbreak. In this study we use spatially explicit capture-recapture models
 to compare home range overlap (as a proxy for territoriality) in female
 mice from populations showing different outbreak trajectories. We found
 that female space use in spring varied between outbreaking and stable
 populations. Our analysis indicated greater home range overlap in
 populations with stable trajectories compared to those that would later
 experience an outbreak, suggesting females in these stable populations may
 have had greater potential for cooperative group formation as indicated by
 shared space use. We discuss the results with respect to intrinsic
 factors, such as kin structure, with potential implications for better
 predicting mouse outbreaks at a microgeographic scale.
description: The data used for this study were collected from grain paddocks
 located near Mallala on the Adelaide Plains, South Australia (SA) (-34°
 26' 59.99" S, 138° 29' 59.99" E) (paddocks A and B,)
 and near Parkes, Central West, New South Wales (NSW) (33° 8'
 12.56'' S, 148° 10' 22.93'' E) (paddocks C and
 D). In each paddock (n= 4), two independent live-capture trapping grids,
 each separated by a minimum of 100 m were established (n= 8 trapping
 grids). On each live trapping grid, 64 single capture Longworth traps (25
 × 6.5 × 8.5 cm, Longworth Scientific, Abingdon, UK) were set at 10 m
 intervals on an 8 x 8 grid. Traps contained polyester fibre bedding and
 wheat grains for food. They were checked and closed each morning starting
 at approximately 0630 hours (h) and opened in the evening at 1700 h. Traps
 are designed for single capture, however during this study some traps had
 multiple captures on a single trap night.  Near Mallala
 SA (paddocks A and B), trapping data were collected between October 2019
 and February 2020, across four trapping sessions. Near Parkes NSW
 (paddocks C and D), trapping data used here is from a subset of data
 collected between November 2020 and February 2021, across four trapping
 sessions. Sessions are defined by trap grid and the corresponding trapping
 session (e.g., A1.1 or A1.2). Each trapped mouse had a
 radio frequency identification passive integrated transponder (PIT) tag
 (MiniHPT8 8 mm x 1.4 mm; Biomark, Inc.) inserted subcutaneously between
 the scapulae allowing individuals to be uniquely identified through time.
 For each trapped individual, we recorded data on trap location, PIT tag
 identification number, weight, length, sex. All data were collected under
 the approval of the CSIRO Wildlife, Livestock, and Laboratory Animal
 Ethics Committee under the approved application AEC 2019-18.
description: # Data from: Contrasting patterns of female house mouse spatial
 organisation among outbreaking and stable populations
 This dataset includes
 house mouse (*Mus musculus)* capture- mark recapture data collected from
 grain cropping paddocks in Australia. Data was collected from two grain
 cropping regions near Mallala South Australia during 2019/20, and Parkes
 New South Wales during 2020/21. ## Description of the data and file
 structure **File:** House mouse capture mark recapture
 (Van_de_Weyer_et_al_House_Mouse_Captures_Raw_Data.txt) This text file
 contains house mouse capture mark recapture data from live trapping grids
 in Australian grain cropping systems. **Table 1.** House mouse capture-
 mark recapture metadata | Column name | Description | | ----------- |
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Session | trap grid and session name (i.e., A1.1, A1.2, ..., D8.4) | | ID | individual mouse PIT tag identification number. IDs starting with UN are individual mice that were too small to PIT tag (&lt;8 grams). | | Occasion | trap night | | Detector | trap identification number | | Sex | Male (M), Female (F), Unknown (U) | | Region | the region the data was collected from |