Brown Bear Scat Seed Dispersal and Wildlife Interactions in Northwestern Spain, 2024

A tabular dataset supporting ecological research on trophic facilitation via seed dispersal. Data includes wildlife detections from trail cameras monitoring brown bear scats, along with environmental variables, collected in the Western Cantabrian Mountains between June and September 2024. The dataset is structured across six Excel sheets for statistical modeling and is authored by Héctor Ruiz-Villar.

Use Cases

• Modeling effects of environmental variables on rodent seed removal rates based on GLM data.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of wildlife visits to scats using recurrent event (PAMM) data.
• Classifying and categorizing species interactions for ecological network analysis based on the species sheet.
• Investigating trophic facilitation dynamics in human-dominated landscapes based on the study's described focus.

Strengths

• Includes explicit environmental and contextual explanatory variables for modeling.
• Dataset is structured into six dedicated sheets for data, variable definitions, and species classification.
• Data collection is temporally bounded to a specific season (June-September 2024) in a defined geography (Western Cantabrian Mountains).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from separate definition sheets after download.
• The dataset is small (172.8 KB), indicating a limited scope of observations.

Provenance

Source

Héctor Ruiz-Villar, associated with the University of León (based on email).

Collection Method

Data collected via trail camera monitoring of animal interactions with brown bear scats.

Time Range

June to September 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-19 09:49:36.

Geography

Western Cantabrian Mountains, northwestern Spain.