Weather × camera detections

Synthetic Meteomatics-format weather (parameters t_2m:C, precip_1h:mm, relative_humidity_2m:p, soil_moisture_index_-15cm:idx, …) joined hourly to camera-trap detections per site. Real deployments would replace this with a Meteomatics API time-series query keyed by camera lat/lon.

UG-ZWR

Ziwa Wildlife Reserve (savanna)

savanna_grassland

total rain

346.2 mm

mean T

24.4 °C

mean soil idx

0.84

UG-BFE

Budongo Forest Edge

moist_semi_deciduous_forest

total rain

1014.0 mm

mean T

21.5 °C

mean soil idx

0.90

UG-MFR

Murchison Falls Riparian Zone

riparian_wetland

total rain

786.4 mm

mean T

25.6 °C

mean soil idx

0.92

Ziwa Wildlife Reserve (savanna) — 30 day weather

UG-ZWR

Budongo Forest Edge — 30 day weather

UG-BFE

Murchison Falls Riparian Zone — 30 day weather

UG-MFR

Daily correlations: detections × weather (Pearson r)

Green = positive (more weather, more detections); rust = negative. Synthetic data does not encode strong cause-and-effect, so most r are small — but soil moisture at the forest site shows a meaningful positive correlation (the kind of signal a real fossorial-mammal dataset is expected to reveal).

Site	vs precip	vs mean T	vs soil moist.	vs min pressure	n days
UG-BFE	0.087	-0.098	0.446	-0.338	30
UG-MFR	-0.077	-0.062	0.226	0.606	30
UG-ZWR	0.126	-0.142	-0.283	-0.026	30

Daily detections vs daily rainfall

Detection rate in rain vs dry hours (per 100 camera-hours)

Ratio > 1 → species is more detectable / active in rainy hours. Field interpretation requires accounting for trap-night denominators and PIR-trigger sensitivity in low-light wet conditions.

Site	Species	rain dets	dry dets	rain rate	dry rate	ratio
UG-ZWR	Common warthog	195	927	185.71	150.73	1.23×
UG-ZWR	Aardvark	143	954	136.19	155.12	0.88×
UG-ZWR	Common duiker	191	801	181.9	130.24	1.4×
UG-ZWR	Olive baboon	166	725	158.1	117.89	1.34×
UG-ZWR	Spotted hyena	122	744	116.19	120.98	0.96×
UG-ZWR	African civet	99	584	94.29	94.96	0.99×
UG-ZWR	African buffalo	123	541	117.14	87.97	1.33×
UG-ZWR	Bushbuck	94	450	89.52	73.17	1.22×
UG-ZWR	Crested porcupine	71	439	67.62	71.38	0.95×
UG-ZWR	Honey badger	51	291	48.57	47.32	1.03×
UG-BFE	Bushpig	274	995	169.14	178.32	0.95×
UG-BFE	Black-and-white colobus	240	882	148.15	158.06	0.94×
UG-BFE	Olive baboon	155	557	95.68	99.82	0.96×
UG-BFE	African civet	141	539	87.04	96.59	0.9×
UG-BFE	Bushbuck	130	445	80.25	79.75	1.01×
UG-BFE	Crested porcupine	91	334	56.17	59.86	0.94×
UG-BFE	Common genet	89	333	54.94	59.68	0.92×
UG-BFE	Giant pangolin	68	273	41.98	48.92	0.86×
UG-BFE	Honey badger	67	244	41.36	43.73	0.95×
UG-BFE	Aardvark	50	187	30.86	33.51	0.92×
UG-MFR	Waterbuck	207	711	126.99	127.65	0.99×
UG-MFR	Common warthog	210	670	128.83	120.29	1.07×
UG-MFR	Hippopotamus	183	575	112.27	103.23	1.09×
UG-MFR	African buffalo	176	541	107.98	97.13	1.11×
UG-MFR	Spotted hyena	124	526	76.07	94.43	0.81×
UG-MFR	Olive baboon	129	469	79.14	84.2	0.94×
UG-MFR	African civet	99	431	60.74	77.38	0.78×
UG-MFR	African elephant	123	387	75.46	69.48	1.09×
UG-MFR	Bushbuck	71	291	43.56	52.24	0.83×
UG-MFR	Aardvark	64	276	39.26	49.55	0.79×