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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. \n\nLocations 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.\n\nOf the 214 locations listed, 135 sites for which environmental data were available were used to model the probability of a die-off event. 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