Mammal Species Relative Abundance Matrix - Manu National Park, Peru

This dataset is a mammal species abundance matrix, with camera trap ID's as rows and species names as columns. <br> Data was collected using camera traps in Manu National Park, Madre de Dios, Peru at Cocha Cashu Biological Station (2019, July-August, dry season) and at the indigenous communities:Yomibato, Tayakome, and Maizal (2013-2015, wet and dry seasons). <br> Cocha Cashu camera ID codes include code "CT_No." , for single traps or "Name_PCT" for paired traps. Single traps were spaced 500m in a regular grid, and paired traps were placed inside the grid originally part of an individual jaguar identification study. Traps were installed 30 - 60 cm above the ground on a tree on access trails and were active for 24 hrs/day. Trapping effort was 1,312 trap nights. <br> Camera traps at indigenous communities include ID code "MCT_No" for Maizal, "T_No" for Tayakome, "YCT_No" for Yomibato. At each community, camera traps were placed in the hunting zone, spaced 2 km apart with an additional camera in the centre at 1.6 km apart from other cameras, conforming to TEAM Network methodology. Trapping effort: Maizal: 3,630; Tayakome: 6,375; Yomibato: 3,165 trap nights. <br> Independent species capture events, dates, and times were extracted in R statistical programming language using the Camtrap R package. Photos of the same species within the same hour were excluded to maintain independent capture events. <br> The relative abundance for each species for each season across all years was calculated as the number of independent capture events divided by the total number of nights each camera was active and then the result was multiplied by 100. Abundances were then averaged across both seasons.