Data for: The importance of grass cover for mammalian diversity and habitat associations in a bush encroached savanna

Camera trap presence/absence data for 21 terrestrial mammal species detected in Mbuluzi Game Reserve and Mlawula Nature Reserve, Swaziland. Where columns represent each species detected and rows the survey plots sampled. Data includes covariates used in the Bayesian multi-species hierarchical abundance model used to examine the association of mammal local relative abundance and species richness with temporal and habitat covariates. Covariates used in the model are the following:
1. Year: indicates year of sampling each plot
2. Month: indicates month of sampling
3. Camera: indicates whether 1 or two cameras were used at each plot.
4. Shrub: average shrub cover per plot
5. Grass: average grass cover per plot
6. Tree: average tree cover per plot
7. Dwat: distance of plot center to nearest body of surface water
8. vo: Average measure of visual obstruction per plot

斯威士兰姆布卢齐野生动物保护区（Mbuluzi Game Reserve）与姆拉武拉自然保护区（Mlawula Nature Reserve）内探测到的21种陆生哺乳动物的红外相机陷阱（camera trap）物种存在-缺失数据集。该数据集的列对应各探测到的物种，行对应所采样的调查样地。
本数据集包含用于贝叶斯多物种层级丰度模型（Bayesian multi-species hierarchical abundance model）的协变量，该模型用于探究哺乳动物本地相对丰度与物种丰富度同时间、生境协变量之间的关联。模型所使用的协变量如下：
1. 年份（Year）：标记每个样地的采样年份
2. 月份（Month）：标记每个样地的采样月份
3. 相机布设数量（Camera）：标记每个样地布设1台还是2台红外相机
4. 灌丛覆盖度（Shrub）：每个样地的平均灌丛覆盖比例
5. 草本覆盖度（Grass）：每个样地的平均草本覆盖比例
6. 乔木覆盖度（Tree）：每个样地的平均乔木覆盖比例
7. 距水体距离（Dwat）：样地中心到最近地表水体的距离
8. 视觉遮蔽度（vo）：每个样地的平均视觉遮蔽程度