Data limitations
We acknowledge the limitations of our dataset, including a reduced sampling effort in 2022 and the challenges of linking correlative data to causal mechanisms. These limitations stem largely from the difficulty of achieving consistent replication at the species level across multiple years. Studying animal behaviour in situ is inherently challenging due to the complex, variable nature of animal behaviours, where the unpredictability of both the species and the environment introduces considerable variability. Additionally, multi-year studies on behaviour are rare, as they require substantial resources and time commitment to track populations over extended periods. While these limitations restrict our ability to conduct species-level analyses of behaviour, this dataset remains one of the only multi-year assessments of behaviour across a species assemblage. As such it provides rare insights into natural behaviour that would be difficult to obtain through laboratory-based studies alone.
See Supporting information for a breakdown of sample effort and detectability rates.