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Use of viscera from hunted roe deer by vertebrate scavengers in summer in central European mountainous mixed forest
Published in Wildlife Biology 
Dataset from 47 roe deer evisceration residues samples exposed to vertebrate scavenging in front of triple sets of camera traps in the university forest of freiburg.
Owner: Sebastian Schwegmann (sebastian.schwegmann@gmail.com)

General remarks: 
Between May and October 2022 eight roe deer viscera samples from hunted roe deer per month were exposed to vertebrate scavenging in front of camera traps on 47 individual locations. Samples visits, feeding and removal events of samples by vertebrate scavengers were assessed. Events were deemed independent if more than 20 minutes passed between consecutive pictures. Samples were observed for a maximum of 16 days. The data was used to assess the composition of the vertebrate scavenging fauna using evisceration residues, to determine which scavengers remove entire samples of residues and how long viscera are available to invertebrate scavenging.

Metadata

General data: Table describing the location and general metadata of the sampling sites. 
Samples: Indexed name of the sample site
Session: Month
Date-setup: Date of camera setup	
Time-setup: Time of camera setup	
Date-collection: date of camera collection
Time-collection: Time of camera collection
Hochwert, Rechtswert: Position coordinates	
Sample: Sample ID	
Sample_weight: Weight of the carrion sample in kg.
Heart, Liver: Organ available in the sample (Yes/No).	
Cam1, Cam2, Cam3: Ids of camera traps positioned.

Event table: Table containing all individual events detected by camera traps.
Samples: Indexed name of the sample site
Date-setup: Date of camera setup
Date Event: Date of the detected event 	
Time: Time of the detected event 	
Species: Scavenger species detected	
Behaviour: Category of events detected (Visit, Feeding, Removal)	
Days2: Time elapsed between sample exposure and detected event.