Land cover preferences and spatiotemporal associations of ungulates within a Scottish mammal community

# Land cover preferences and spatiotemporal associations of ungulates within a Scottish mammal community These data are the results of a camera trapping survey on the Bunloit rewilding project in Inverness-shire, as detailed in the manuscript Lovell et al. 2023 titled "Habitat preferences and spatiotemporal associations of ungulates within a Scottish mammal community". Datasets contact_data contains the raw data set extracted from the tagged camera trap images. Each row represents an independent ungulate contact as detailed in the associated manuscript. Variables in this dataset utilised in future analysis are the 'placeID' (the ID number for the camera trap), the 'Date' and 'Time' each independent contact was recorded at, the 'Tag' (the species present in the image), and the location of each camera trap through longitude ('Long') and lattitude ('Lat') variables. count_data is the number of independent contacts at each camera trap site, and the duration each camera trap was deployed for. This data was generated by summing the independent contacts of each species at each camera trap site. 'placeID' represents the unique camera trap ID, 'count_Cn' is the number of independent sika deer counts, 'count_Cc' roe deer, 'count_Ce' red deer, and 'count_Ss' wild boar. 'effort' is the number of days each camera trap was successfully recording for in total over which the associated species contacts were recorded. 'first_date,' and 'last_date' are the first and last date each camera trap was deployed for. 'habitat' represents the associated land cover class. 'rate_Cn', 'rate_Cc', 'rate_Ce', 'rate_Ss' represent the number of contacts/effort for each camera trap and each species. Code Summary stats.R was used to calculate various summary statistics for the dataset. Habitat Posson models.R was used to run the negative binomial habitat poisson models, and conduct associated emmeans comparisons and plots Time diff analysis.R was used to conduct the time interval analysis to assess spatiotemporal associations/avoidance Plotting time difference analysis.R was used to create the plot associated with the spatiotemporal analysis Licence: Creative Commons ##