Land Cover and Soil Moisture Data for Tularemia in Swedish Hare Populations, 2016-2021

93.5 MB of geospatial data maps land cover and soil moisture within the estimated 80-hectare home ranges of mountain and European brown hares found dead in Sweden between 2016 and 2021. The data, created by Lovisa Hökby, is organized by hare species and tularemia infection status (positive or negative). Land cover includes 25 categories derived from Swedish national data, while soil moisture is measured on a 0-101 scale.

Use Cases

• Analyze habitat associations of tularemia infection based on land cover categories.
• Model soil moisture as a potential environmental driver for tularemia prevalence.
• Compare habitat use between mountain hare and European brown hare species.
• Investigate correlations between specific forest types (e.g., pine, spruce) and disease status.

Strengths

• Data is spatially linked to specific hare mortality events over a 5-year period (2016-2021).
• Land cover classification includes 25 detailed categories, such as forest types on and off wetlands.
• Soil moisture values are provided on a standardized 0-101 scale for quantitative analysis.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the locations where hares were found dead.

Provenance

Source

Land cover data derived from Swedish National Land Cover Data (NMD2018); soil moisture data derived from Swedish Forest Agency (Skogsstyrelsen).

Collection Method

Data describes the estimated home ranges of hares found dead by private citizens and examined by the Swedish Veterinary Agency (SVA).

Time Range

2016 to 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 07:30:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sweden