Shorebird survey data from Foxe Basin and Rasmussen Lowlands, Nunavut - 1994-97 and 2019.

<p>Data used in the manuscript &quot;Climate-related range shifts in Arctic-breeding shorebirds&quot;, submitted to Diversity and Distributions, June 2022. Data was funded and collected by Environment and Climate Change Canada</p> <p>Metadata:</p> <p>species - 4 letter codes denoting the observed shorebird species. See https://www.birdpop.org/docs/misc/Alpha_codes_eng.pdf</p> <p>binomial - Binomial nomenclature identifying the genus and species of the observed shorebird</p> <p>sti - Species Temperature Index. Calculated as the mean temperature with in the species breeding range. Temperature data came from the WorldClim 2.1 data set (Fick, S.E. and R.J. Hijmans, 2017. WorldClim 2: new 1km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 37 (12): 4302-4315). Shorebird breeding range data came from BirdLife International (BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World. 2020. &ldquo;Bird Species Distribution Maps of the World. Version 2020.1.&rdquo; http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/requestdis.)</p> <p>plot - Plot identification number, as part of Environment and Climate Change Canada&#39;s Program for Regional and International Shorebird Monitoring program (PRISM).</p> <p>time_period - Denotes which time period the surveys took place in</p> <p>region - Denotes which region the surveys took place in</p> <p>plot_area_km2 - Area of the surveyed plot in km2</p> <p>plot_habitat - Surveyors estimated the proportion of each plot covered by upland and lowland habitat. Plots were the categorized as upland or lowland depending on which habitat type was predominant</p> <p>n_birds - The number of breeding birds of this species that were observed on plot during the survey.</p> <p>presence - A species was identified as present if one or more individuals of that species were present during the survey.</p> <p>latitude - Latitude of the plot corner</p> <p>longitude - Longitude of the plot corner</p> <p>coordinate_type - Which corner of the plot are the coordinates for?</p>