General Information
Data owner Sabine Hille
Contact sabine.hille@boku.ac.at
Institution Department of Integrated Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Conditions of use/Licence With permission of the owner
Data available via pipeline No
Quality check of the original data In progress: summary and outlier checks with descriptive statistics and consistancy checks between tables (breeding calender, ringing data, offspring nest checks)

 

Study site
Name Schöpfl, Wienerwald
Size (ha) 19.5
Major site changes No
Latitude 48°05′03″N
Latitude 15°55′24″E
Number of nest boxes (min) 211
Number of nest boxes (max) 286
Vegetation Type Mixed deciduous forest. The vegetation is dominated by beech Fagus sylvatica and acer Acer sp., along with some conifers (spruce Picea abies, fir Abies alba, larch Larix decidua)
Description of study site A mountainous forest located in Lower Austria , an altitudinal gradient ranging from 488 to 903 meters above sea level

 

Species
Species Parus major, Periparus ater
Start year 2010
End year 2015
Continuous collection of data Yes
Gap years NA
Longest data collection 5
Parental ID's recorded Yes
List of basic breeding data collected Date first egg, date hatch, date fledge, fledge number, egg number; hatchling number; hatch mass at day 5 and indiv. chick mass at day 10, 15; predation type; incubated yes or no; egg mass; egg length; egg diameter; date egg loss; date hatch loss;
Description of the protocols for breeding data collection see in Scholl & Hille 2020
Description of the protocols for taking individual level measurements see in Scholl et al. 2020
Experimental manipulations Yes
Description of experimental manipulations see in Scholl et al. 2020
Predation events recorded Yes
How are second clutches recorded? All second clutches that are not replacement clutches that had been initiated after 30 days after the first egg was laid in the corresponding year in the population

 

Catching data
Individual data Yes
Type of individual data Age, sex, mass, wing length  feather length, tarsus; bill length; bill height; fat score, muscle, glucose, breeding patch
Feeding data No
Type of feeding data NA
Other catching data Incubation behaviour, nest temperatures
Roosting checks No
Winter ringing No
Colour rings Yes
Tags No
Other NA

 

Genetic data
Blood samples Yes
Feather samples Yes
Other samples No
Samples analysed No

 

Environmental data
Food availability data Yes, see in Scholl et al. 2016
Temperature data Weather station located within the study site (Office of the Provincial Government of Lower Austria, Hydrology and Geoinformation, official webpage: www.noe.gv.at). Data can also obtained from three meteorological stations surrounding the study area (distance 24-32 km; Auer et al. 2012).
Rainfall data Same as above
Other environmental data Tree bud-burst