Landscape features affect occupancy probability of Antrostomus vociferus (Eastern Whip-poor-will) in West Virginia managed forests

Antrostomus vociferus (Eastern Whip-poor-will) have experienced a greater population decrease range wide than any other caprimulgid in North America. Hypotheses for this population reduction include conversion of open pasture to forest, increasing levels of urbanization, and the reduction of naturally occurring forest fires. Antrostomus vociferous forage over low forest canopies within early successional areas such as farmland intermixed with woody vegetation, forest patches recently cleared by fires and timber harvesting, and large artificial canopy breaks created by roads and power-line cuts. On institutional timber-harvest land in south-central West Virginia, we examined what site-specific and landscape features were positively associated with A. vociferus detection and occupancy probability. In June 2021 and 2022, we used autonomous recording units (ARUs) to estimate occupancy on a ~104,000 ha working forest. To estimate occupancy, we targeted surveys in regenerating clear-cut fores..., , # Landscape features affect occupancy probability of Antrostomus vociferus (Eastern Whip-poor-will) in West Virginia managed forests

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.mpg4f4rc1](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mpg4f4rc1)

## Description of the data and file structure

We have submitted our raw occupancy data (**EWPW_occu.csv**) which include presence/detection and landscape covariates. We have also included (**EWPW_veg_occu.csv**) which includes all vegetation-related covariates for all the same sampled sites. 

## Descriptions

*Data set 1 - Detection/Occupancy*

ARU_30(and 5) - data not used in the models but represent total (undivided) detection throughout the whole 30 minute recording periods. 

interval(s)_1 and 2 - two possible intervals of detection for EWPW. Two intervals of time used for occupancy probability models. Intervals 1 and 2 represent the first and last 5 minutes respectively of the 30 minute recording periods. 

ID - Forest stand ID

Rip - presence or absence of riparian wi...,