Hill Jacob E, Devault Travis L, Belant Jerrold L
Camp Fire Program in Wildlife Conservation, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, New York, 13210, USA.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, National Wildlife Research Center, 6100 Columbus Avenue, Sandusky, Ohio, 44870, USA.
Ecology. 2019 Dec;100(12):e02865. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2865. Epub 2019 Sep 6.
As wildlife populations continue to decline worldwide, human-caused mortality of terrestrial vertebrates is of increasing importance. However, there is a limited understanding of how direct anthropogenic mortality compares in magnitude to natural mortality. Here, we present CauseSpec, a database of global terrestrial vertebrate cause-specific mortality. We compiled studies that used telemetry to monitor terrestrial vertebrates and determine cause of death. We distinguished between anthropogenic and natural mortality and also documented the specific mortality source where possible (e.g., harvest, vehicle collision, predation, and starvation). This database consists of 1,134 studies that collectively monitored the fates of 123,747 individual animals. From this, there are 43,998 deaths of known cause among 307 species. It is an updated version of the data set used in Hill et al. (2019) and will continue to be updated in the future. These data can be combined with data on species morphology and behavior to examine how species attributes influence susceptibility to various mortality sources. Our database also includes the geographic coordinates of the study site so that site attributes can be included in analyses. We also distinguish between adults and juveniles where possible, allowing for age-specific mortality analyses. Study start and end dates are available as well so that analyses of temporal changes in mortality are possible. Last, users can select all cause-specific mortality studies from a single species to perform a species-level analysis. The data set will allow users to circumvent a literature search, facilitating more rapid publication of large-scale vertebrate mortality studies and elucidating mortality patterns of terrestrial vertebrates around the world. There are no copyright or proprietary restrictions. We would like researchers to cite this paper if the associated database is used to find studies of interest for analysis.
随着全球野生动物数量持续减少，人为导致的陆地脊椎动物死亡问题日益重要。然而，对于直接的人为死亡率与自然死亡率在规模上的比较，我们的了解有限。在此，我们展示了CauseSpec，这是一个全球陆地脊椎动物特定死因死亡率的数据库。我们汇编了利用遥测技术监测陆地脊椎动物并确定死亡原因的研究。我们区分了人为死亡率和自然死亡率，并在可能的情况下记录了具体的死亡来源（例如，捕猎、车辆碰撞、捕食和饥饿）。该数据库由1134项研究组成，这些研究共同监测了123747只个体动物的命运。由此，在307个物种中有43998例已知死因的死亡。它是Hill等人（2019年）使用的数据集的更新版本，未来将继续更新。这些数据可以与物种形态和行为数据相结合，以研究物种属性如何影响对各种死亡来源的易感性。我们的数据库还包括研究地点的地理坐标，以便在分析中纳入地点属性。我们还尽可能区分成年个体和幼年个体，以便进行特定年龄的死亡率分析。研究的开始和结束日期也可获取，从而能够分析死亡率的时间变化。最后，用户可以从单个物种中选择所有特定死因死亡率研究，以进行物种层面的分析。该数据集将使用户无需进行文献搜索，有助于更快速地发表大规模脊椎动物死亡率研究，并阐明世界各地陆地脊椎动物的死亡模式。不存在版权或专有限制。如果使用相关数据库来查找感兴趣的分析研究，我们希望研究人员引用本文。
