Use of camera traps to understand Wisconsin mammal diel activity under anthropogenic pressures

This data uses Snapshot Wisconsin (Townsend et al. 2021) data and geospatial variables pertaining to nighttime light (NTL, Li et al. 2020), human population density (GPW, CIESIN 2018, Doxsey-Whitfield et al. 2015), access to cities (Weiss et al. 2018), impacting sound (Mennitt et al. 2013), and global human modification of terrestrial systems (GHM, Kennedy et al. 2019). The aim of using this data is to understand how anthropogenic variables influence mammal diel activity in Wisconsin, USA. This dataset contains the relevant information for the geospatial variables used as well as the camera trap data spatially matched to them. , , # Use of camera traps to understand Wisconsin mammal diel activity under anthropogenic pressures

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.69p8cz9g9](10.5061/dryad.69p8cz9g9)

## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset includes 5 years of camera trap data ranging from Jan 1, 2017 to Dec 31, 2022. Species were identified in camera trap photos by community scientists that maintained the cameras, through crowdsourcing on the Zooniverse platform (SnapshotWisconsin.org), and uncertain species IDs were confirmed by expert observers.

Five geospatial variables were used to measure the degree of human impact across the landscape in Wisconsin: nighttime light (NTL, Li et al. 2020), human population density (GPW, CIESIN 2018, Doxsey-Whitfield et al. 2015), access to cities (Weiss et al. 2018), impacting sound (Mennitt et al. 2013), and global human modification of terrestrial systems (GHM, Kennedy et al. 2019).

Precise location data of camera traps has been removed for sake of privacy.

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