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

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,818,198 records.

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Illanas S, Fernández-López J, Vicente J, Ruiz-Rodríguez C, López-Padilla S, Sebastián-Pardo M, Preite L, Gómez-Molina A, Acevedo P, Blanco-Aguiar J A (2024). Data set: Only-presence data for wild ungulates and red fox in Spain based on hunting yields. Version 1.4. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC /CSIC-UCLM-JCCM). Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.15470/lve3wn

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Keywords

Occurrence; mammals; hunting; wildlife conservation

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The data set reports information mainly from the different regions of mainland Spain (all administrative Autonomous Communities ) including updates of information from the archipelagos of the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, where these species are prevalent and hunted. Hunting yield information was transferred into only-presence 5 x 5 km grid resolution of the European Environment Agency

Taxonomic Coverage

It includes information on species of wild ungulates and the red fox that are legally hunted in the different territories of Spain.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

This database is the result of a longterm effort to collect and standardise information that has been made possible thanks to the various projects that have made it possible to compile this information. One of the objectives of this project is to collect long-term data sources, especially hunting bags at the highest spatial resolution available, which will allow an assessment of the removals made to be applied in the modeling of species distribution. ENETWILD and EOW, I+D+i HAWIPO Project (PID2019-111699RB-I00), I+D+I AGROBOAR Project (PID2022-142919OB-100), funded by MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/y–FEDER–EU, and FAUNET (CSIC-MAPA)

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Annual hunting yield at hunting ground level data from 2013/2014 to 2022/2023 hunting seasons for wild ungulate and red fox were collected in Spain (the information will be updated within this period). Due to privacy restrictions and the differing spatial coverage of the information may vary from one year to year, only recorded occurrences (presences) are reported. Hunting yield information collected thanks to all administrative services from different Autonomous Communities: Diputación Foral de Álava, Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, Generalitat de Cataluña, Generalitat Valenciana, Gobierno de Aragón, Gobierno de Cantabria, Gobierno de la Comunidad de Madrid, Gobierno de la Región de Murcia, Gobierno de La Rioja, Gobierno del Principado de Asturias, Gobierno de Navarra, Junta de Andalucía, Junta de Castilla y León, Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, Junta de Extremadura, Junta de Galicia... was transferred into only-presence 5 x 5 km grid resolution of the European Environment Agency by hunted species and year.

Method step description:

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.

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