Northern Nevada wildlife and topography: Camera trapping data set for 14 mammal species collected from 100 sampling sites in northwestern Nevada

Camera traps are one of the most common field techniques for surverying
terrestrial mammal communities and thus, much work has gone into
understanding how different factors influence species detection at camera
trap locations. However, the effect of fine-scale topography, such as
terrain slope and position, on wildlife detection has not been explicitly
quantified despite strong effects of topography on animal movement in
mountainous regions. This data set contains weekly detection non-detection
data for 14 mammal species from 100 camera traps sites monitored for 28
months (June 2018 - September 2020) in northwestern Nevada, U.S.A. This
sampling extent was split into 3 month sampling seasons, exclusive of
winter (Dec, Jan, Feb)  and spring 2020, when data were sparse.
In addition to species detection data, that dataset includes topographic
variables at cameras sites: 1) terrain slope, calculated in R package
raster from a 10m digital elevation model and 2) Topographic position
index averaged across three buffer sizes around points 270m, 810m, and
2430m. The land cover variables proportion mixed conifer and proportion
pinyon-juniper woodland within a 5000m buffer of sites are also included.
Both are derived from the USDA/US DOI Landfire 2016 dataset. The luring
variable indicates whether attractant was applied at a site during a given
week, the effect of which was assumed to last for a month after the last
application.