README.txt

## README

# This repository contains data and code from TWO related studies of breeding phenology in the North American deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus).

# REFERENCES
# McLean BS, Guralnick RP. 2021. Digital biodiversity data sets reveal breeding phenology and its drivers in a widespread North American mammal. Ecology 102(3):e03258. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3258
# McLean BS, Barve N, Guralnick RP. 2022. Sex-specific breeding phenologies in the North American deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). Ecosphere 2022;13:e4327. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4327

# DATA SETS
PEMA_male_data.csv - male reproductive traits, body size, and associated climate variables used in the Ecosphere paper
PEMA_phenology_final_dataframe.csv - female reproductive traits, body size, and associated climate variables used in McLean and Guralnick (2021)

# R CODE
R code used in the male paper, largely hierarchical GAMs and generalized linear mixed models, model comparisons, and plotting functions