Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G2E9, Canada.
Instituto de Biociências, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, SP, 13506-900, Brazil.
Ecology. 2020 Nov;101(11):e03128. doi: 10.1002/ecy.3128.
Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data.
哺乳动物食肉动物被认为是维持生态健康的关键群体，它们的存在可以表明在其出现的景观中潜在的生态完整性。食肉动物也具有很高的保护价值，它们的栖息地需求可以指导管理和保护规划。在新热带地区，食肉目有 84 种，分属于 8 个科：犬科、猫科、臭鼬科、鼬科、海狮科、海豹科、浣熊科和熊科。本文包括关于新热带地区本地陆生食肉动物（犬科、猫科、臭鼬科、鼬科、浣熊科和熊科）的已发表和未发表的数据。新热带食肉动物是一个公开的数据集合，其中包含 35511 个唯一地理位置坐标的 99605 个数据条目。1818 年至 2018 年期间，研究人员、政府机构、非政府组织和私人顾问通过相机陷阱、博物馆收藏、道路杀戮、线路截距和机会性记录等方法获得了检测/未检测和定量数据。文献（同行评议和灰色文献）来自葡萄牙语、西班牙语和英语。该数据集主要由检测数据条目组成（n=79343；79.7%），但也包括未检测数据条目（n=20262；20.3%）。其中，43.3%还包括计数数据（n=43151）。新热带食肉动物中提供的信息将有助于从多个时空角度回答宏观生态学、生态学和保护学问题。由于食肉动物在营养相互作用中起着关键作用，因此更好地了解它们的分布和栖息地需求对于制定保护管理计划和保障新热带生态系统未来的生态健康至关重要。我们的数据论文与其他大规模数据集相结合，具有阐明新热带地区物种分布和相关生态过程的巨大潜力。本数据论文没有版权限制，也没有使用本数据论文中数据的限制，只要引用本数据论文作为所使用信息的来源即可。我们还要求用户告知我们他们打算如何使用这些数据。
