Records of prioritized species of mammals of Colombia compiled from photo-trapping by the Instituto Humboldt.

Cristian Alexander Cruz Rodríguez1, Cristian Alexander Cruz-Rodríguez1, Infraestructura Institucional de Datos2, Angelica Diaz Pulido2, Bibiana Gómez Valencia2

1 Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos, Alexander von Humboldt, Av. Circunvalar #16-20, Bogotá D. C., Colombia; 2 Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Avenida Paseo Bolívar # 16-20, 110321, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia

Corresponding author(s): Cristian Alexander Cruz Rodríguez (ccruz@humboldt.org.co)

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Resource Citation

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2023).  Records of prioritized species of mammals of Colombia compiled from photo-trapping by the Instituto Humboldt. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/resource?r=fototrampeo_endemicas-uso_iavh_2022

Abstract

I2D-BIO_2023_011. This dataset contains 126614 records and provides the most complete recompilation of records collected from the Instituto Humboldt based on photo-trapping data by 75 mammal species that are threatened, endemic or subject to use in Colombia between 2013 and 2022. The information increases the knowledge about this species, and it also provides comments or notes about the occurrences that support the records and strengthen the information so that it can be used in other processes such as the national risk assessment of the prioritized species.

Keywords: ccurrence, camera trapping, Colombia, mammals, specimen, Specimen

General description

Purpose: This dataset compiles the most complete dataset on Colombian mammals obtained by photo-trapping. It is expected that the data included here will be useful for the management of the species reported, by providing valuable information regarding their occurrence.

Project details

Project title: Records of prioritized species of mammals of Colombia, compiled from photo-trapping by the Humboldt Institute.
Personnel: Cristian Alexander Cruz Rodríguez, Angélica Paola Díaz Pulido, Bibiana Gómez Valencia, Elkin Alexi Noguera Urbano, Carolina Soto Vargas, Yenifer Herrera-Varón, Angélica Benítez, Federico Mosquera-Guerra, Laura Siabatto, Luis Fernando Cáceres Gómez, Luisa Fernanda Martinez Torres, Natalia Peña González, Olber Llanos Villegas, Gerlando Delgado Bermeo, Javier Garcia Villalba, Adriana Restrepo, Helena Olaya, José Manuel Ochoa Quintero
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The study area comprises the national continental territory of Colombia. Specifically, it compiles records of 821 localities distributed in 53 municipalities and 19 departments.
Design description: The compilation of records of Colombian mammals through the use of camera traps is one of the Institute's contributions to the process of categorizing the mammals of Colombia. It also offers the opportunity to generate the most complete dataset for this group in the country obtained by photo-trapping.

Data published through GBIF: http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/resource?r=fototrampeo_endemicas-uso_iavh_2022

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Records on 75 species  of the class Mammalia, classified in 27 families and 10 orders (Ramírez-Chaves et al., 2016, 2021). The families with the highest number of recorded species were , Didelphidae (7 species), Felidae (6 species) and Cervidae (6 species). The families with the highest number of records were Dasyproctidae (38474 records), Cuniculidae (15878 records) and Didelphidae (12968 records). The most abundant species were Dasyprocta punctata (34822 records), Cuniculus paca (15312 records) and Didelphis marsupialis (9288 records).   Designation to which ranks of taxa are reviewed with the current national list (Ramírez-Chaves et al., 2016, 2021) and validated with taxonomic national experts.
Taxonomic ranks
Order: Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Chiroptera, Cingulata, Didelphimorphia, Lagomorpha, Perissodactyla, Pilosa, Primates, Rodentia
Common names: Venados, Carnivoros, Chimbilás, Armadillos, Chuchas, Conejos, Peresozos, osos hormigueros, ratones, roedores

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The study area corresponds to  continental area of Colombian territory, specifically reporting records for 821 localities distributed in 19 departments and 53 counties of the five natural regions of Colombia with exception to insular region (Archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia in the Caribbean Sea and Malpelo and Gorgona Islands in the Pacific Ocean).
Coordinates: 1°8'2.4''N and 11°13'33.6''N Latitude; 77°20'34.8''W and 68°8'42''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: October 17, 2013 - April 1, 2022

Methods

Method step description: A final data set of mammal species was obtained from the following procedure: 

1.  The information was organized following the Darwin Core standard for the documentation of biological records.
2. Names were validated according to Burgin et al. (2020) and for species not included there, information available in portals such as the IUCN Red List (https://www.iucnredlist.org/), and the most updated species lists for the country (Ramirez-Chaves et al., 2016, 2021) were followed.
3. For the validation of the geographic information, the routines of the BioModelos program were used and records with erroneous georeferencing were eliminated. The names of the departments and municipalities were also adjusted according to the Divipola data Portal. 

All data processing was carried out in the software R
Study extent description: The information represents the effort to publish information to recognize the diversity of mammals and maintain their presence in the country to monitor changes in species over time and identify key sites for their conservation. For this purpose, camera-trap data obtained in different projects between 2013 and 2022 were collected in 712 localities in 20 departments.
Sampling description: We systematized and standardized the photo-trapping data collected in different studies that had not been published for the last 9 years. Finally, the information received was grouped in a database in Darwin Core format.
Quality control description: Scientific names were refined to be consistent with current taxonomy, based on literature on mammalian taxonomy and following the lists most updated species for the country (Ramírez-Chaves et al., 2016, 2021). Additionally, the databases were also refined, including only information at the species level, and with coordinates that were within the  continental areas of Colombia, and corroborated under the standards of the BioModelos Program of the Instituto Humboldt (Velásquez-Tibatá et al., 2019).

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Records of prioritized species of mammals of Colombia compiled from photo-trapping by the Instituto Humboldt.
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/archive.do?r=fototrampeo_endemicas-uso_iavh_2022
Publication date of data: 2023-02-16
Language: Spanish
Licences of use: Libre a nivel interno y externo (Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-02-02
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Ramírez-Chaves, H. E., Suárez Castro, A.F., Sociedad Colombiana de Mastozoología, Zurc, D., Concha Osbahr, D. C., Trujillo, A., Noguera Urbano, E. A., Pantoja Peña, G. E., Rodríguez Posada, M. E., González Maya, J. F., Pérez Torres, J., Mantilla Meluk, H., López Castañeda, C., Velásquez Valencia, A., Zárrate Charry, D. (2021). Mamíferos de Colombia. Version 1.10. Sociedad Colombiana de Mastozoología. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15472/kl1whs accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-03-16.
Ramírez-Chaves, H. E., Suárez-Castro, A. F. & González-Maya, J. F. (2016). Cambios recientes a la lista de mamíferos de Colombia. Mammalogy 
Notes, 3(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.47603/manovol3n1.1-9.
Velásquez-Tibatá, J., Olaya-Rodríguez, M. H., López-Lozano, D., Gutiérrez, C., González, I., & Londoño-Murcia, M. C. (2019). BioModelos: A collaborative online system to map species distributions. PLOS ONE, 14(3), e0214522. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0214522