Leopard occupancy correlates with tiger and prey occurrences

Large carnivores such as leopards (Panthera pardus) experience continuing threats from habitat loss and fragmentation, depletion of prey populations, and retaliatory killing following conflicts with humans. We aimed to identify factors affecting leopard occupancy and temporal overlap between leopards and tigers (P. tigris), their major prey, and human activities in Parsa-Koshi Complex (PKC), Nepal. We deployed 154 cameras for 21 days each along wildlife trails throughout PKC during December 2022–March 2023. The data consists of weekly detection probability of leopard in PKC along with variables taken for the study. Variables include distance to settlement, number of humans detected, number of livestock detected, presence of tiger, presence of prey, area of water body within a radius of 500m from each trapping station and area of forest within same radius. The data is prepared for hierarchical occupancy modeling and can be analyzed using Just Another Gibbs

诸如豹（Panthera pardus）在内的大型食肉动物正持续面临栖息地丧失与破碎化、猎物种群枯竭以及与人类发生冲突后遭报复性猎杀的多重威胁。本研究旨在识别尼泊尔帕尔萨-科希综合体（Parsa-Koshi Complex, PKC）内，影响豹种群占用率，以及豹与老虎（P. tigris）、其主要猎物和人类活动之间时间重叠格局的各类因素。研究于2022年12月至2023年3月期间，在帕尔萨-科希全区域的野生动物步道上布设了154台相机，每台相机的布设时长为21天。本数据集包含该区域内豹的周度检测概率，以及本研究采集的各类协变量。协变量具体包括：各采样点距居民点的距离、检测到的人类数量、检测到的牲畜数量、老虎的存在情况、猎物的存在情况、每个诱捕站点500米半径范围内的水体面积，以及同一半径范围内的森林面积。本数据集专为分层占用模型分析而构建，可通过Just Another Gibbs进行数据分析。