DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kd51c5bj3
title: Data and code for: Acoustic monitoring enables multi-taxa conservation assessment and prioritisation over large scales and for rare and cryptic species

description: This dataset contains the raw occurrence and acoustic activity
 (detections/night) of nocturnally active species surveyed in Ukrainian and
 Belarusian Polesia by passive acoustic monitoring, and associated
 landcover and metadata, from over 500 sites. This dataset was collected
 using Wildlife Acoustics SM4 FS acoustic recorders and processed using BTO
 machine-learning classifiers. The presence of each species and a minimum
 of 100 detections per species/per site was manually verified (unless there
 were fewer detections). The code provided is for the occupancy and
 abundance models for describing and predicting the distribution of these
 species over the region of Polesia. These data provide the foundation for
 assessing protected area coverage and efficacy in Polesia.
description: # Data for: Acoustic monitoring enables multi-taxa conservation assessment
 and prioritisation over large scales and for rare and cryptic species
 Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.kd51c5bj3](10.5061/dryad.kd51c5bj3) ##
 Description of the data and file structure Data was collected during
 acoustic monitoring surveys of over 500 sites in Polesia. Raw data
 (species_occurence_activity.zip) contains the species occurrence (per
 night of recording and split into bats, birds, bush crickets, and small
 mammals), or activity data (detections per recording period) for each
 sampling site in an R data file format with associated land cover
 variables at a 20m, 1km and 5km resolution. data-prep_(1).R and
 abund-data-prep.R contain R code to prepare the data for modelling. The
 prediction surface for each model (environmental variables of which
 occupancy and abundance is predicted over) is contained in
 prediction_surfaces.zip. All other .zip files contain the R code for the
 model the file is named for (e.g.
 "crickets_occupancy_models.zip" are the occupancy model code
 files for bush crickets). 
 
 ### Files and variables #### File: species_occurence_activity.zip
 **Description:** raw occurrence and activity data with land cover
 variables #### File: crickets_occupancy_models.zip
 **Description:** occupancy model code for bush crickets #### File:
 bird_occupancy_models.zip **Description:** occupancy model code for birds
 #### File: data-prep_(1).R **Description:** preparation of data for
 occupancy modelling #### File: small_mammals_occupancy_models.zip
 **Description:** occupancy model code for small mammals #### File:
 bats_occupancy_models.zip **Description:** occupancy model code for bats
 #### File: prediction_models.zip **Description:** occupancy prediction
 code for all taxa (SDMs) #### File: prediction_surfaces.zip
 **Description:** prediction surface for SDMs #### File:
 small_mammals_abundance_models.zip **Description:** activity/abundance
 model code for small mammals #### File: bat_abundance_models.zip
 **Description:** activity/abundance model code for bats #### File:
 abund-data-prep.R **Description:** data preparation code for abundance
 models #### File: predict-mammals_abundance.R **Description:** abundance
 prediction code for small mammals (SDMs) #### File:
 predict-bats_abundance.R **Description:** abundance prediction code for
 bats (SDMs)