Human land-use effects on mammalian mesopredator occupancy of a northeastern Connecticut landscape

Mesopredator mammal presence absence data was collected from 50 paired Bushnell Trophy Cam HD camera traps in the Yale Myers Forest from April 2018 through February 2019. Within each season, we sampled on three replicate sets of 21 survey days. For analysis, the 21 survey days were condensed down to 7 survey days, with every three days grouped together into a single survey, consistent with other protocols (Cove et al., 2017). For illustration, a presence (1)/absence (0) sequence of 100-000-001 (9 surveys) was reduced to 1-0-1 (3 surveys). The raw presence absence data is provided. For habitat variables, at each camera trap location we measured canopy cover, foliage height diversity, volume of coarse woody debris, and snag density. All other habitat variables were extracted at 1km buffer radius from each camera trap site, and the data was pulled from the National Land Cover, Yale Myers Forest and National Elevation Databases. For further methodological description see associated paper.