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Mamíferos de Paso Centurión

Dataset homepage

Citation

Grattarola F, Cavalli E, Flores D, Rondoni M, Duarte A, Hernández D, Rodríguez-Tricot L (2025). Mamíferos de Paso Centurión. Version 1.3. Biodiversidata. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ws5x8h accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-18.

Description

The dataset contains primary biodiversity data of the mammals’ species documented by the NGO JULANA in the area of Paso Centurión, one of the most biodiverse areas of Uruguay. It includes 1,690 occurrence records, all the observations made by camera traps between 2014 and 2016 in four particular sites and some extra occurrence records of species not covered in that period. Top observations include the last Chrysocyon brachyurus seen for Uruguay, the first record of Puma yagouaroundi for the country and the second report of Leopardus colocola munoai for the area.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The area of Paso Centurión is located in the department of Cerro Largo, on the border with Brazil by the Yaguarón River. The trap cameras were set covering an area of 25 km2 within the surroundings of Paso Centurión.

Sampling

The records are machine observations obtained using camera traps.

Quality Control

Species names were checked using the GBIF backbone taxonomy.

Method steps

  1. Trap cameras (Bushnell NatureView Cam HD) were set covering an area of 25 km2 within the surroundings of Paso Centurión. The management of the cameras and records was carried out by JULANA members, the landowners where the cameras were set, and other people from the local community involved in the monitoring process. Cameras were placed on native forest patches associated with freshwater streams nearby the houses of the landowners (between 200- and 2,000-meters distance). Different parameter settings were used for the cameras, some were set to take photos, others to record 10-seconds videos and in other cases, 3 photos were obtained together with a 10-seconds video after a 5-seconds interval. We allowed parameters to vary greatly because the main aim was placed in exploring the tool and detecting as many species as possible.
  2. Data from the cameras were downloaded with a periodicity of one to four months.
  3. The species identification and event data documentation were carried out by Enzo Cavalli, Diego Flores and Marcela Rondoni, as part of their undergraduate thesis work (Cavalli 2019; Rondoni 2019; Flores in prep). The reference used for mammal species identification was the guide from the mammals of Uruguay from González and Martínez-Lanfranco (2010). Only mammal species were considered. When the files corresponded to 3 consecutive photos (one per second) of the same species, a single record was considered. Similarly, three photos per second were followed by a video were counted as a single record. When the animal was recorded in 3 photos, we recorded the observation in which the species was identify with greater precision.
  4. Domestic species and human records were excluded at this point, including records from Bos taurus, Sus scrofa domestica, Ovis aries, Canis lupus familiaris, Equus caballus and Felis catus.
  5. The table with all the records was standardised following FAIR Principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016) to enable the maximum re-use of the data. We enriched the records by including 40 descriptive terms following the Darwin Core Biodiversity Data Standard (Wieczorek et al. 2012).
  6. Species scientific names and scientific names authorship were extracted using the R package taxize (Chamberlain et al. 2018). The R scripts can be found at Grattarola (2019).
  7. Extra records of species documented in the area outside of the period of time above mentioned were added, including records from Axis axis, Chrysocyon brachyurus, Puma yagouaroundi y Coendu spinosus.

Taxonomic Coverages

A total of 23 medium and large size mammal species were recorded, distributed in 7 orders and 13 families.
  1. Animalia
    rank: kingdom
  2. Chordata
    rank: phylum
  3. Mammalia
    rank: class
  4. Artiodactyla
    rank: order
  5. Rodentia
    rank: order
  6. Pilosa
    rank: order
  7. Cingulata
    rank: order
  8. Carnivora
    rank: order
  9. Didelphimorphia
    rank: order
  10. Lagomorpha
    rank: order
  11. Cervidae
    rank: family
  12. Cuniculidae
    rank: family
  13. Caviidae
    rank: family
  14. Erethizontidae
    rank: family
  15. Myrmecophagidae
    rank: family
  16. Dasypodidae
    rank: family
  17. Procyonidae
    rank: family
  18. Canidae
    rank: family
  19. Felidae
    rank: family
  20. Mephitidae
    rank: family
  21. Didelphidae
    rank: family
  22. Suidae
    rank: family
  23. Mustelidae
    rank: family
  24. Leporidae
    rank: family

Geographic Coverages

Locality of Paso Centurión

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Bergós L, Grattarola F, Barreneche JM, Hernández D, González S (2018) Fogones de Fauna: An Experience of Participatory Monitoring of Wildlife in Rural Uruguay. Society & Animals 26: 171-185. - https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341497
  2. Cavalli E (2019) Efectos de la ganadería sobre la comunidad de mamíferos de Paso Centurión, Cerro Largo. Universidad de la República. -
  3. Chamberlain S, Szoecs E, Foster Z, Arendsee Z, Boettiger C, Ram K, Bartomeus I, Baumgartner J, O'Donnell J, Oksanen J, Greshake Tzovaras B, Marchand P, Tran V (2018) taxize: Taxonomic information from around the web. R package version 0.9.3. - https://docs.ropensci.org/taxize/
  4. González EM, Martínez-Lanfranco JA (2010) Mamíferos de Uruguay: Guía de campo e introducción a su estudio y conservación. Montevideo, Uruguay, 464 pp. -
  5. Grattarola F (2019) bienflorencia/rBiodiversidata: R scripts. 1.0.1 Zenodo - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3093998
  6. Rondoni M (2019) Efectos de factores ambientales sobre la riqueza de mamíferos en Paso Centurión (Cerro Largo). Universidad de la República. -
  7. Wieczorek J, Bloom D, Guralnick R, Blum S, Döring M, Giovanni R, Robertson T, Vieglais D (2012) Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PloS one 7: e29715. - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
  8. Wilkinson MD, Dumontier M, Aalbersberg IJ, Appleton G, Axton M, Baak A, Blomberg N, Boiten J-W, da Silva Santos LB, Bourne PE, Bouwman J, Brookes AJ, Clark T, Crosas M, Dillo I, Dumon O, Edmunds S, Evelo CT, Finkers R, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Gray AJG, Groth P, Goble C, Grethe JS, Heringa J, ’t Hoen PAC, Hooft R, Kuhn T, Kok R, Kok J, Lusher SJ, Martone ME, Mons A, Packer AL, Persson B, Rocca-Serra P, Roos M, van Schaik R, Sansone S-A, Schultes E, Sengstag T, Slater T, Strawn G, Swertz MA, Thompson M, van der Lei J, van Mulligen E, Velterop J, Waagmeester A, Wittenburg P, Wolstencroft K, Zhao J, Mons B (2016) The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Scientific Data 3: 160018. - https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18

Contacts

Florencia Grattarola
originator
position: Collaborator
JULANA
Montevideo
UY
email: flograttarola@gmail.com
homepage: https://flograttarola.com/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8282-5732
Enzo Cavalli
originator
position: Collaborator
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República
Montevideo
UY
email: ecavalli@fcien.edu.uy
Diego Flores
originator
position: Undergraduate Student
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República
Montevideo
UY
email: biodiegoflores@gmail.com
Marcela Rondoni
originator
position: Posgraduate Student
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República
Montevideo
UY
email: marrondoni@gmail.com
Alejandro Duarte
originator
position: Collaborator
JULANA
Montevideo
UY
email: alejandrodua@gmail.com
Daniel Hernández
originator
position: Lab Assistant
Control Ambiental, Arrayanes (CETP-UTU)
Montevideo
UY
email: gallegodez@gmail.com
Lucía Rodríguez-Tricot
originator
position: PhD Student
Centro Universitario Regional del Este (CURE), Universidad de la República
Maldonado
UY
email: luciartricot@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0949-9074
Florencia Grattarola
metadata author
position: Coordinator
Biodiversidata
UY
email: biodiversidata@gmail.com
homepage: https://biodiversidata.org/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8282-5732
Florencia Grattarola
administrative point of contact
position: Coordinator
Biodiversidata
UY
email: flograttarola@gmail.com
homepage: https://flograttarola.com/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8282-5732
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