Camera-traps and the city: spatiotemporal adaptations of wildlife to urban environments

Urbanisation significantly reshapes ecosystems, affecting biodiversity and profoundly altering wildlife behaviour. Nonetheless, our understanding of the environmental drivers of behavioural changes, as well as the concurrent effects upon interspecific interactions, remain limited. Here, we investigated the spatiotemporal adaptations of wildlife to urban environments, with a focus on predator-prey dynamics in response to urban-specific environmental characteristics, adopting a year-round camera-trapping campaign within the metropolitan area of Florence, Italy.
Temporal and spatial activity patterns of predators, prey, humans, and domestic animals, as well as their relative overlaps, were quantified, revealing a marked increase in nocturnal behaviour among most wildlife species compared to their conspecifics in rural areas.
A wide temporal overlap was recorded between predators and most of their prey (70–93%), yet limited to night hours. Contrary to more natural settings, the effects of m..., , # Camera-traps and the city: spatiotemporal adaptations of wildlife to urban environments.

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We have submitted our raw data (**UrbanDataset.xlsx**).

## Descriptions

### **UrbanDataset.xlsx**

* *Date*: date of the event
* *MoonPhase*: Moon phase related to the event (1-4)
* *Epact*: Epact day (1-29)
* *SkyCoverage*: percentage of sky coverage
* *Hour*: Solar hour of the event
* *Openness*: Openness of the dominant habitat
* *NightDay*: Nocturnal (N) or diurnal (D) event
* *Site*: Camera trap location
* *Year*: Year of the event
* *Season*: Astronomical season of the event
* *Sps*: Common name of the species recorded in each event
* *N_ind*: Number of individuals recorded in the event

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