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cameratrap: Camera trap data on mammals in Ruaha National Park, southern Tanzania.

Description

Dataset contains 14604 observations and sampling was carried out for two months during the dry season of 2013 and two months during the wet season of 2014. Each camera station is associated with a randomly placed camera and a trail-based camer, with the aim of comparing communities resulting from the two camera trap placement strategies.

Usage

data(cameratrap)

Arguments

Format

Contains 6 variables, as follows:

reference

Number of observation od datasets.

placement

Type of "placement" placed in each station (random or trail).

season

Season where were made the samplings.

station

Station where were collected the data.

specie

Name of specie medium to large terrestrial mammals.

date.time

The date and time of each photographic event is also given.

References

- Cusack J, Dickman A, Rowcliffe M, Carbone C, Macdonald D, Coulson T. 2016. Random versus game trail-based camera trap placement strategy for monitoring terrestrial mammal communities. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126373.

Examples

Run this code
data(cameratrap)    
head(cameratrap) 

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