8ad12782-e939-4834-830a-c89e503a298b English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:26:37 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Saiga antelope die-off and calving sites in Kazakhstan 2017-09-12 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/8ad12782-e939-4834-830a-c89e503a298b 10.5285/8ad12782-e939-4834-830a-c89e503a298b doi: Robinson, S.J., Singh, N., Zuther, S. (2017). Saiga antelope die-off and calving sites in Kazakhstan. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/8ad12782-e939-4834-830a-c89e503a298b This dataset records the Saiga antelope die-off and calving sites in Kazakhstan. It represents the locations (and where available dates) of (i) die-offs and (ii) normal calving events in the Betpak-dala population of the saiga antelope, in which three major mass mortality events have been recorded since 1988. In total, the data contains 214 saiga die-off and calving sites obtained from field visits, aerial surveys, telemetry and literature. Locations derived from field data, aerial surveys or telemetry are polygons representing the actual size and shape of the die-off or calving sites; locations sourced from the literature are point data around which buffers of 6km were created, representing the average size of calving aggregations. Of the 214 locations listed, 135 sites for which environmental data were available were used to model the probability of a die-off event. The collection and use of these data are written up in more detail in papers which are currently under review (when published links will be added to this record). Saiga antelope are susceptible to mass mortality events, the most severe of which tend to be caused by haemorrhagic septicaemia following infection by the bacteria Pasteurella multocida. These die-off events tend to occur in May during calving, when saigas gather in dense aggregations which can be represented spatially as relatively small sites. The Betpak-dala population is one of three in Kazakhstan, located in the central provinces of the country (see map). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8ad12782-e939-4834-830a-c89e503a298b Robinson, S.J. Oxford University, visiting researcher Sarah.robinson09@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7365-8423 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Robinson, S.J. University of Oxford Sarah.robinson09@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7365-8423 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Singh, N. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sarah.robinson09@gmail.com author Zuther, S. Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan Sarah.robinson09@gmail.com author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Species Distribution theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Saiga tatarica Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation Kazakhstan GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Robinson, S.J., Singh, N., Zuther, S. (2017). Saiga antelope die-off and calving sites in Kazakhstan. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/8ad12782-e939-4834-830a-c89e503a298b vector English utf8 biota 61.523 73.828 44.439 51.428 Shapefile NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/8ad12782-e939-4834-830a-c89e503a298b Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/8ad12782-e939-4834-830a-c89e503a298b.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 The 24 die-off sites include only those at which mortality was certain or likely to have been caused by haemorrhagic septicaemia. These locations were recorded from fieldwork in 2015 and from the Soviet literature in 1981 and 1988. All the other sites represent normal calving aggregations at which there was no mass mortality event. Here data come from the Soviet literature (up to and including 2008) and field and telemetry data from the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan from 2008 to 2016. See more detailed information in the attached documentation