This data was used to analyze the relationship between environmental and societal characteristics and overlap with humans in coyotes (Canis latrans). The dataset includes environmental characteristics (proportion open space, proportion impervious cover) and societal characteristics (human population density, median income, proportion of White residents) in the vicinity of high-resolution GPS data collected from coyotes in the Chicago metropolitan area. These characteristics were summarized at three scales surrounding each GPS location: 30 m ("data_30_df_6-5-25.rdata"), 100 m ("data_100_df_6-5-25.rdata"), and 500 m ("data_500_df_6-5-25.rdata"). We estimated overlap by quantifying coyotes’ spatial selection for human population density during periods of temporal overlap, i.e., periods when coyotes and humans were active, using step-selection analysis.

See Zepeda et al. (2025) for full methods.

Zepeda, E., Sih, A., Schell, C.J. and Gehrt, S.D., 2025. Urban coyote spatiotemporal overlap with humans is associated with environmental characteristics not human sociodemographics. Scientific Reports, 15(1), p.31597. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-16323-8