Drought and top predators interactions

The overall dataset is composed of two files: an Excel file and a Geographic Information System shape file. The Excel dataset contains information on how drought affected the predation by Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus on the broods of raptorial Black kites Milvus migrans, following a disease-driven crash in the density of rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus, which is a keystone prey for both predators. Data were collected on lynx predation, the abundance of rabbits and various measures of the behavioural, life history and demographic response by kites to lynx predation, such as nest-site selection, territory change, territory extinction, longevity and lifetime reproductive success. The shapefile contains the areas covered by surface water on different dates, corresponding to cloud-free Landsat images available for the study area and for each year of the study of predation by lynx on kites. For each year, the shape file includes the inundation layers for the Landsat images available between 15 February and 30 March and the images available just before and just after this temporal window.