Description
The projects Tres Mesas Wind Farm Phase 3 (TM3) and Phase 4 (TM4) are located in the municipality of Llera de Canales, in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico within an area where other wind farms operate. The available project area is 8,902.64 hectares. TM4 has an environmental impact assessment authorization from the Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, which established conditions for the development of the project, including a study to analyze the distribution and current status of mammals and big felids.
The document data comes from mammals and big felids monitoring in TM3 and TM4 wind farms. The monitoring database presented was carried out from January to December 2023.
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 2,730 records.
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GBIF Registration
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Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
Renewable projects Tres Mesas 3 (TM3) and Tres Mesas 4 (TM4) in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [23.392, -98.968], North East [23.461, -98.862] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Mammalia |
| Order | Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Lagomorpha, Didelphimorphia |
| Family | Canidae, Cervidae, Didelphidae, Felidae, Leporidae, Mephitidae, Mustelidae, Procyonidae, Tayassuidae |
Project Data
Monitoring program for mammals and three focal species of feline in wind farm Tres Mesas 3 and Tres Mesas 4 through tramp camera methodology to document its abundance, compare it over time, and evidence the current conservation status of species.
| Title | Feline and other mammals monitoring in Tres Mesas wind farm |
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| Design Description | 30 photo-trapping stations were installed, of which 13 were double stations, two cameras at each photo-trapping station placed one on each side of the road to identify some species at the individual level; a total of 43 camera traps were installed. The traps were installed on roads, trails, paths, and bodies of water where tracks, excrement, or any trace left by felids were observed. The calibration of these was performed with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 meters away from the point where the animals potentially present within the study area were estimated to transit and each camera was placed at a height of ~40 to 60 cm, which is ideal for medium and large mammal species. The separation between stations was ~1 km, a distance necessary to avoid overestimating the relative abundances of felids. |
Sampling Methods
30 photo-trapping stations were installed, of which 13 were double stations, two cameras at each photo-trapping station placed one on each side of the road to identify some species at the individual level; a total of 43 camera traps were installed. The traps were installed on roads, trails, paths, and bodies of water where tracks, excrement, or any trace left by felids were observed. The calibration of these was performed with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 meters away from the point where the animals potentially present within the study area were estimated to transit and each camera was placed at a height of ~40 to 60 cm, which is ideal for medium and large mammal species. The separation between stations was ~1 km, a distance necessary to avoid overestimating the relative abundances of felids.
| Study Extent | The geographic location of the eolic project is considered an important region between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Sierra de Tamaulipas. The site is located near the City of Llera Canales (municipal head). The Project has been developed within a plot area of 89,023 hectares. |
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Method step description:
- The first step for the elaboration of the analyses will be the creation of the database obtained in the camera traps, for which the Renamer program is used, which creates efficient databases that allow the data to be used for further analysis. Once the files are renamed, the programs Data Organize and Data Analyze are used to generate output files for density estimation and activity pattern analysis. The HotSpotter program is used for identification at the individual level. Once identified at the individual level, the density is determined through analysis within the programming environment Rstudio version 4.0.3 (R Code Team, 2017) in the freely available software secr version 4.3.3.3.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=engie_mexico_felinesandothermammals2023 |
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