Assessing the potential of camera traps for estimating activity pattern compared to collar-mounted activity sensors: A case study on Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in South-Eastern Norway

The diel activity patterns of animals convey information about physiology, ecological niches and animal behaviour relevant for both applied conservation and more theoretical research. However, these patterns are challenging to study in the field. The current gold-standard approach to quantify the movements and activity patterns of medium to large wildlife species is to use Global Positioning Systems (GPS) collars equipped with activity sensors (e.g., accelerometers). A more recent approach consists of inferring activity patterns from the time-stamped pictures of wildlife obtained from the camera traps now routinely used in wildlife monitoring projects. However, few studies have attempted to validate estimates of activity patterns obtained from camera traps against those obtained from activity sensors. In this study, we compared the diel activity pattern of the Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx inferred from detections by a network of over 300 camera traps active between 2010 and 2020, to acti..., , , # Assessing the potential of camera traps for estimating activity pattern compared to collar-mounted activity sensors: a case study on Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx in south-eastern Norway - Datasets

We have submitted our camera traps dataset (CameraTrapsData.Rdata) and accelerometer dataset (AccelerometerData.Rdata). Camera trap detections of lynx were obtained from 327 camera traps (Reconyx HC500 HC600, PC850, PC900 & HP2X, Holmen, Wisconsin, USA) distributed in the study area as part of the SCANDCAM project ([https://viltkamera.nina.no/](https://viltkamera.nina.no/)). Data used in this study resulted from 11 years of monitoring, from November 2010 to December 2020, and a total of 2292 independent detections of lynx. Accelerometer data were obtained from 18 lynx (8 females and 10 males) equipped with GPS collars that also contained 2-axis accelerometers (GPS plus mini, Vectronic Aerospace GmbH, Berlin, Germany) between 2008 and 2015 as part of the SCANDLYNX project ([http://scandlynx.n...