DOI: 10.5061/dryad.d2547d85x
title: HomeRange: A global database of mammalian home ranges

description: Motivation: Home range is a common measure of animal space use as it
 provides ecological information that is useful for conservation
 applications. In macroecological studies, values are typically aggregated
 to species means to examine general patterns of animal space use. However,
 this ignores the environmental context in which the home range was
 estimated and does not account for intraspecific variation in home range
 size. In addition, the focus of macroecological studies on home ranges has
 been historically biased toward terrestrial mammals. The use of aggregated
 numbers and terrestrial focus limits our ability to examine home range
 patterns across different environments, variation in time and between
 different levels of organisation. Here we introduce HomeRange, a global
 database with 75,611 home-range values across 960 different mammal
 species, including terrestrial, as well as aquatic and aerial species.
 Main types of variable contained: The dataset contains mammal home-range
 estimates, species names, methodological information on data collection,
 home-range estimation method, period of data collection, study coordinates
 and name of location, as well as species traits derived from the studies,
 such as body mass, life stage, reproductive status and locomotor habit.
 Spatial location and grain: The collected data is distributed globally.
 Across studies, the spatial accuracy varies, with the coarsest resolution
 being 1 degree. Time period and grain: The data represent information
 published between 1939 and 2022. Across studies, the temporal accuracy
 varies, some studies report start and end dates specific to the day. For
 other studies, only the month or year is reported. Major taxa and level of
 measurement: Mammal species from 24 of the 27 different taxonomic orders.
 Home-range estimates range from individual-level values to
 population-level averages. 
description: Mammalian home range papers were compiled via an extensive
 literature search. All home range values were extracted from the
 literature including individual, group and population-level home range
 values. Associated values were also compiled including species names,
 methodological information on data collection, home-range estimation
 method, period of data collection, study coordinates and name of location,
 as well as species traits derived from the studies, such as body mass,
 life stage, reproductive status and locomotor habit. Here we include the
 database, associated metadata and reference list of all sources from which
 home range data was extracted from.  We also provide an R package, which can be installed from https://github.com/SHoeks/HomeRange. The HomeRange R package provides functions for downloading the latest version of the HomeRange database and loading it as a standard dataframe into R, plotting several statistics of the database and finally attaching species traits (e.g. species average body mass, trophic level) from the COMBINE (Soria et al. 2021) for statistical analysis.
description: # Title of Dataset: HomeRange: A global database of mammalian home ranges
 *** Mammalian home range papers were compiled via an extensive literature
 search. All home range values were extracted from the literature including
 individual, group and population-level home range values. Associated
 values were also compiled including species names, methodological
 information on data collection, home-range estimation method, period of
 data collection, study coordinates and name of location, as well as
 species traits derived from the studies, such as body mass, life stage,
 reproductive status and locomotor habit. We also provide an R package,
 which can be installed from https://github.com/SHoeks/HomeRange. The
 HomeRange R package provides functions for downloading the latest version
 of the HomeRange database and loading it as a standard dataframe into R,
 plotting several statistics of the database and finally attaching species
 traits (e.g. species average body mass, trophic level). from the COMBINE
 (Soria et al. 2021) for statistical analysis. ## Data and File Overview
 File List: 1. HomeRangeData\_2023\_09\_06.csv 2.
 HomeRangeReferences\_2023\_09\_06.csv 3.
 HomeRangeMetadata\_2022\_11\_11.pdf **UPDATES**: The main data file
 (HomeRangeData\_2023\_09\_06.csv) and reference list
 (HomeRangeReferences\_2023\_09\_06.csv) were updated on September 6th,
 2023. Data file modifications include updating the study coordinates for
 five studies, removing one duplicated home range study and adding one
 missing study. The reference list was altered to reflect the deletion and
 addition of studies. ## DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR:
 HomeRangeData\_2023\_09\_06.csv 1. Number of variables: 38 2. Description:
 This data file includes the complete HomeRange database. Please see the
 associated metadata file (HomeRangeMetadata\_2022\_11\_11.pdf) for
 explanations of each variable and the reference list
 (HomeRangeReferences\_2022\_09\_06.csv) for the original sources. 3.
 Variable List A. Study\_ID B. Species C. subspecies D. Ind\_ID E.
 Home\_Range\_km2 F. HR\_Spread\_km2 G. Spread\_Units H. HR\_Level I.
 HR\_Source J. HR\_Span K. No\_Individuals L. No\_HR M. Sex N. Life\_Stage
 O. Reproductive\_Status P. Body\_mass\_kg Q. Context R. Context\_Details
 S. Locomotion T. Latitude U. Longitude V. LatLong\_Source W. Country X.
 Locality Y. dayStart Z. monthStart AA. yearStart BB. dayEnd CC. monthEnd
 DD. yearEnd EE. Tracking\_Method FF. HR\_Method GG. HR\_Method\_Simple HH.
 Isopleth\_Size II. HR\_Software JJ. Mean\_No\_Locations\_Used KK.
 SE\_No\_Locations\_Used LL. Comments ## DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR:
 HomeRangeReferences\_2022\_09\_06.csv 1. Number of variables: 13 2.
 Description: This file includes the reference list for all literature from
 which home range data were extracted. 3. Variable List A. Study\_ID B.
 AUTHORS C. TITLE D. JOURNAL E. YEAR F. VOLUME G. NUMBER H. PAGES I.
 PUBLISHER J. ADDRESS K. ISSN L. DOI\_OR\_LINK M. PUBLICATION\_TYPE ##
 DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: HomeRangeMetadata\_2022\_11\_11.pdf 1.
 Number of variables: NA 2. Description: This document includes the
 metadata for the HomeRange database including explanations of each column
 included.