Camera-trapping: wild and domestic species occurrences in three Pyrenean pastures ...

• Main Authors: Vimal, Ruppert, Ouvrier, Alice, Culos, Manon, Guédon, Anaïs, Guével, Agathe Le, Metz, Aymeric, Bitsch, Sarah, Dewost, Marie, Vinette, Coline, Vilbert, Oscar, Guignet, Jonas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UMR 5602 GEODE Géographie de l’environnement (CNRS/Université Toulouse 2) 2024
• Subjects: Monitoring; Cameras; Wildlife; Pastoralism; Ursus arctos; Grazing lands; Ariège; Occurrence
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/939z6d; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/fefe45aa-0d87-4cfd-b8fc-decee91fc2fc

The coexistence of the brown bears (Ursus actos Linnaeus, 1758) and farmers in the Pyrenees has been a major concern for several decades. The bear's depredation on livestock has multiple implications for traditional practices of extensive grazing, and calls for a better understanding of the various ways in which humans and non-humans interact across different territories. The present dataset stems from "The Pastoralism and Bears in the Pyrenees" research project led by the GEODE laboratory (UMR 5602 CNRS-UT2J) in partnership with the Association Dissonances. This project proposes to explore the definition of coexistence based on context-dependent and constantly evolving relationships between bears and pastoral activity. As part of an interdisciplinary approach combining animal geography and ecology, the spatio-temporal activity of the different species was explored using a network of 118 camera traps. The 118 camera traps were installed on the three summer pastures while livestock was present in the ...