Data set: Only-presence data for wild ungulates and red fox in Spain based on hunting yields

Study Extent

Sampling

Quality Control

Method steps

1. Data received from game services of each Autonomous Community in Spain, were standardized following the Wildlife Data Model (WLDM; see template at: https://zenodo.org/records/3735781) which follows the Darwin Core Criteria. Data transformation from received reports to WLDM template was done manually, since each Autonomous Community has their own (different) system/data set structure and was validated using information validation tool. Once a dataset had been harmonized, it was joined with correspondent spatial data (hunting ground perimeters) and the data structure validated using shinyIVT app (10.5281/zenodo.8358634). For data management, we used tidyverse 2.0.0 and sf 1.0 packages of R 4.3.1 software. The information was presented in the 5 x 5 km squared grid of the European Environment Agency25 masked with Spain. After that, only-presence of each species was transferred to the grid separately for each hunting season and species. A cell was considered as presence for a hunting season only if at least one individual has been hunted in an overlapping hunting estate, by using the function gridPresence (https://github.com/robinilla/gridPresence). Otherwise, the cell remained as unknown presence. It must be remarked that the later does not mean the species is absent in that cell, it just informs that it has not been hunted or reported, but no further inferences could be made about the absence of the species’ register.

1. Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758
   common name: wild boar rank: species
2. Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
   common name: roe deer rank: species
3. Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758)
   common name: red fox rank: species
4. Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758
   common name: red deer rank: species
5. Capra pyrenaica Schinz, 1838
   common name: Iberian wild goat rank: species
6. Dama dama (Linnaeus, 1758)
   common name: fallow deer rank: species
7. Rupicapra pyrenaica Bonaparte, 1845
   common name: southern chamoise rank: species
8. Ammotragus lervia (Pallas, 1777)
   common name: barbary sheep rank: species
9. Ovis aries subsp. musimon (Pallas, 1811)
   common name: mouflon rank: subspecies