READ ME Twining, J.P., McFarlane, C., O’Meara, D., O’Reilly, C., Reyne, M., Montgomery, I., Helyar, S., Tosh, D.G., Augustine, B.C. A comparison of density estimation methods for monitoring marked and unmarked animal populations. Ecosphere. Author Information A. Principal investigator contact information Name: Joshua P Twining Institution: Cornell University Address: DNR, Cornell University, Fernow Hall, Ithaca, NY, USA, 14850 Email: jpt93@cornell.edu Date of collection: June – October 2019 Geographic location of data collection: Ring of Gullion, Northern Ireland Funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Newry, Mourne, and Down District Council Recommended citation for this dataset: Twining et al. (2022). Data and code from: A comparison of density estimation methods for monitoring marked and unmarked animal populations. Data and file overview: USCR_Poisson_Marginal_Final_parallel.R - Full script for three parallel chain uSCR analysis using marginalized Poisson model Explore_data.R - Script for formatting the datafiles for cameratraps and producing UMcam.RData which is used in full model run. Init.data.USCR.R - Script for setting up initial values / data for uSCR model NimbleModel USCR Poisson Marginal R -Marginalized Poisson Nimble model for uSCR analysis Nimble Functions USCR Poisson.R - Custom nimble functions for uSCR model sSampler.R - Custom sampler for marginalized uSCR model cameratraps_capturehistory_woccasions.csv - Capture history from camera traps cameratraps_detectors_data.csv - spatial location information for each camera trap cameratraps_operationsmatrix.csv - Operation matrix for the camera traps MCMC_REM_r - Full script for Random Encounter Model in JAGs REMdataROG2019.csv - Camera trap detection data formatted for use in MCMC_REM.r DNA_hairtubes_capture_data.csv - Capture history from hair tubes Hairtubes_detector_data.csv - spatial location information for each hair tube Livetrapping_capturedata.csv - Capture history from live traps Livetrapping_detectors.csv - spatial location information for each live trap Methodological information: Pine marten were sampled using camera traps, hair tubes, and live traps in the Ring of Gullion in Ireland. Data specific information for: cameratraps_capturehistory_woccasions.csv 1. Number of variables: 4 2. Number of rows: 86 3. Variable list: i. SessionID – 1 ii. ID – Unknown iii. Occasion: 1 – 47 iv. Detector: CT32 – CT133 4. Missing data code: N/A 5. Abbreviations used: CT = camera trap 6. Other: None Data specific information for: cameratraps_detectors data.csv 1. Number of variables: 3 2. Number of rows: 30 3. Variable list: i. Camera: CT32 – CT133 ii. X – x coordinate iii. Y – y coordinate 4. Missing data code: N/A 5. Abbreviations used: CT = camera trap 6. Other: None Data specific information for: cameratraps_operationsmatrix.csv 1. Number of variables: 48 2. Number of rows: 30 3. Variable list: i. Camera – CT32 - 133 ii. Occasion1 -Occasion 47: 1 indicates operational, 0 indicates not. 4. Missing data code: N/A 5. Abbreviations used: CT = camera trap 6. Other: None Data specific information for: REMdataROG2019 1. Number of variables: 6 2. Number of rows: 86 3. Variable list: i. RecordID – 1 - 85 ii. Site – only 1 category iii. Cam – Camera ID ranging from 32 - 133 iv. Count – number of animals in image: ranges from 1 -2 v. Dist – distance animal was from camera in km vi. Theta – 2 * angle of detection 4. Missing data code: N/A 5. Abbreviations used: None 6. Other: None 7. Data specific information for: DNAhairtubes_capture_data.csv 1. Number of variables: 4 2. Number of rows: 51 3. Variable list: i. SessionID – 1 ii. ID – Nine individuals with unique names iii. Occasion: 1 – 5 iv. Detector: HT01 – HT20 4. Missing data code: N/A 5. Abbreviations used: HT = Hair tube 6. Other: None Data specific information for: Hairtubes_detectors data.csv 7. Number of variables: 3 8. Number of rows: 20 9. Variable list: i. Detector: HT01 – HT20 ii. X – x coordinate iii. Y – y coordinate 10. Missing data code: N/A 11. Abbreviations used: HT = Hair tube 12. Other: None Data specific information for: livetrapping_capture_data.csv 7. Number of variables: 5 8. Number of rows: 35 9. Variable list: i. SessionID – ROG1 ii. ID – Nine individuals with unique names iii. Occasion: 1 – 42 iv. Detector: 1 – 12 v. Sex: M or F 10. Missing data code: N/A 11. Abbreviations used: M = Male, F = Female 12. Other: None Data specific information for: Livetrapping_detectors data.csv 13. Number of variables: 3 14. Number of rows: 12 15. Variable list: i. Detector: 1 - 12 ii. X – x coordinate iii. Y – y coordinate 16. Missing data code: N/A 17. Abbreviations used: None 18. Other: None