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MesoCarnivores: Camera trap data for Bobcat, Coyote and Red Fox

Description

Camera trap (detection/nondetection) data for Bobcat (Lynx rufus), Coyote (Canis latrans) and Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) from six Mid-Atlantic states in the eastern United States analyzed by Rota et al (2016).

Usage

data("MesoCarnivores")

Arguments

Format

MesoCarnivores is a list with 4 elements:

bobcat, coyote, redfox

1/0 detection data for the respective species: matrices with rows for 1437 sites x 3 replicates, where each replicate corresponds to 1 week of observations.

sitecov

a data frame with rows for 1437 sites and the following columns:

  • Dist_5km : the proportion of disturbed land in the surrounding 5km.

  • HDens_5km : housing density in the surrounding 5km.

  • Latitude : the latitude of the point, decimal degrees divided by 100.

  • Longitude : the longitude, decimal degrees divided by 100.

  • People_site : number of people photographed at a site divided by 1000.

  • Trail : 1 if the camera was located on a trail, 0 otherwise.

References

Rota, C.T., Ferreira, M.A.R., Kays, R.W., Forrester, T.D., Kalies, E.L., McShea, W.J., Parsons, A.W., & Millspaugh, J.J. (2016) A multispecies occupancy model for two or more interacting species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 1164-1173.

Kéry, M. & Royle, J.A. (2021) Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology AHM2 - 8.2.

Examples

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data(MesoCarnivores)
str(MesoCarnivores)

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