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MesoCarnivores: Occupancy data for coyote, red fox, and bobcat

Description

Occupancy data and site covariates for coyote, red fox, and bobcat from 1437 camera trap sites sampled 3 times. Each sampling period represents one week. This data is a simplified form of the dataset used by Rota et al. (2016).

Usage

data(MesoCarnivores)

Arguments

Format

A list with four elements:

bobcat

A 1437x3 occupancy matrix for bobcat

coyote

A 1437x3 occupancy matrix for coyote

redfox

A 1437x3 occupancy matrix for red fox

sitecovs

A data frame containing covariates for the 1437 sites, with the following columns:

  • Dist_5kmProportion of disturbed land in 5 km radius

  • HDens_5kmHousing density in 5 km radius

  • LatitudeLatitude / 100

  • LongitudeLongitude / 100

  • People_siteNumber of photos of people at site / 1000

  • Trail1 if camera was on trail, 0 if not

References

Rota, C.T., et al. 2016. A multi-species occupancy model for two or more interacting species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7: 1164-1173.