Camera detections of seed station visitors

This data set is a result of an observational study conducted in a southern California, semi-arid shrubland (Rancho Jamul Ecological Reserve, Jamul, CA). As a master's student in Biology/Ecology, I was interested in whether seed predators preferentially removed non-native over native seeds. Additionally (and most importantly), I evaluated whether field equipment intended to parse out relative patterns of seed removal between different taxa (birds, rodents, ants) were inhibiting the taxon of interest. More specifically, does the exclusion cage/PVC tube intended to permit access to rodents, but not rabbits and birds, inhibit visitation by rodents?<br><br>I deployed field cameras at every seed station to directly observe seed removal by visitors. In this data set, we collected: the genus of visitor; whether they visited a seed dish (Y/N); if so, if they removed from the open dish (open to all visitors) or the "tube" dish (open only to rodents/insects); if they removed native or non-native seed from the dish; how long they remained at the dish. This study was conducted three times (spring, fall, and winter) across 28 seed stations. <br><br>A separate data set contains the measured seed removal from each side (native vs. non-native) of each dish (open vs. "tube"). <br>