Published January 30, 2022
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Dataset
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Dataset used in the assessment of the article "Basic urban services fail to neutralise environmental determinants of 'rattiness', a composite metric of rat abundance"
Authors/Creators
- 1. Instituto de Saúde Coletiva. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- 3. Centre forHealth Informatics, Computing, andStatistics, Lancaster University Medical School
- 4. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia: Teoria, Aplicações e Valores. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.
- 5. Faculdade de Farmácia. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.
- 6. Instituto de Biologia. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.
- 7. Instituto de Saúde Coletiva. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.
- 8. Departamento de Engenharia de Transportes e Geodésia. Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil.
- 9. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.
- 10. Centre for Health Informatics, Computing, and Statistics, Lancaster University Medical School, United Kingdom.
- 11. Instituto de Saúde Coletiva. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. ; Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Fiocruz Bahia, Brazil. ; Yale School of Public Health, United States of America.
- 12. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Description
This data was collected in four Brazilian informal settlements located in the city of Salvador - the third largest city of Brazil - in the wet season of the year 2018. The data includes the collection of three rat abundance metrics - namely, rat marks on track plates, rats caught in live traps and removed, and presence of rat signs (faecal droppings, trails and active burrows) - in a total of 529 independent sampling locations. In addition to the single rat metrics, which were also used to compose the rattiness outcome, the data contain the baseline environmental and socioeconomic (surveyed and mapped) variables and the BUS variables considered in Carvalho-Pereira et al., 2023. (the data will be available soon)
Notes
The study for which this dataset was developed was supported by the Medical Research Council (UK), grant number MR/P024084/1