White-Tailed Deer and Human Activity from Snapshot USA 2019 Camera Traps

437.9 KB of camera trap data from the Snapshot USA 2019 project, compiled by Mingzhang Liu and last updated in April 2026. It contains independent detection counts for humans and white-tailed deer, alongside environmental variables like land cover and topography. The dataset is supplemented with information on whether deer hunting is permitted, sourced from a 2024 ecological study.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between human activity and deer detection rates based on the 'Human' and 'Deer' variables.
• Analyzing the impact of hunting regulations on wildlife activity using the provided hunting permission data.
• Investigating how environmental factors like forest cover ('Forest') and terrain ruggedness ('TRI') influence species detections.
• Comparing wildlife activity patterns on weekends versus weekdays using the 'Weekend' indicator variable.

Strengths

• Includes multiple environmental covariates such as elevation, land cover percentages, and topographic indices.
• Links camera trap observations to external data on hunting regulations from a 2024 peer-reviewed publication.
• Data is structured for mixed-effects modeling, indicated by the presence of 'ArrayID' for grouping.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics for some variables like 'HER_average' must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's 437.9 KB size suggests a limited scope, potentially covering a specific subset of the broader Snapshot USA project.

Provenance

Source

Snapshot USA 2019 camera trap project, with hunting data from Moll et al. (2024).

Collection Method

Camera trap deployments recording independent detections, aggregated with spatial environmental data.

Time Range

Primary data from 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 08:35:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Coverage likely corresponds to Snapshot USA arrays across the United States.