Rainfall decrease and red deer rutting behaviour: Weaker and delayed rutting activity though higher opportunity for sexual selection

• Marina F. Millán ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marina F. Millán, Juan Carranza

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: b22femim@uco.es (MFM); jcarranza@uco.es (JC)

  Affiliation Wildlife Research Unit (UIRCP), Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0116-8134

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• Juan Carranza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marina F. Millán, Juan Carranza

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: b22femim@uco.es (MFM); jcarranza@uco.es (JC)

  Affiliation Wildlife Research Unit (UIRCP), Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0368-7173

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• Javier Pérez-González,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology and Ethology Unit, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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• Juliana Valencia,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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• Jerónimo Torres-Porras,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Social and Experimental Sciences Teaching, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

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• Jose M. Seoane,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Wildlife Research Unit (UIRCP), Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

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• Eva de la Peña,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Wildlife Research Unit (UIRCP), Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

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• Susana Alarcos,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Biology and Ethology Unit, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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• Cristina B. Sánchez-Prieto,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Biology and Ethology Unit, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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• Leticia Castillo,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Biology and Ethology Unit, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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• Antonio Flores,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Biology and Ethology Unit, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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• Alberto Membrillo

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Wildlife Research Unit (UIRCP), Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9770-0537

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