Variable Description Data type Unit/source
Habitat factors Records were taken out from the National Geo- matics Center of China (http://www.ngcc.cn/ngcc/)
Deciduous forest Distance to the edge of the nearest deciduous broadleaf forest (oak) Continuous (m)
Mixed forest Distance to the edge of nearest mixed forest Continuous (m)
Woody savannas distance to the edge of nearest woody savanna (pine tree) Continuous (m)
Grassland distance to the edge of nearest grassland Continuous (m)
Elevation Elevation at each camera station as described by Qi et al., (2015). Continuous (m) Field data
Season Summer or winter period of capture event, determined by time stamp on camera trap image/video, summer 1 and winter 0 Binary Camera trap
Activity times 24 hour diel activities of animals in each season calculated using independents photos as mentioned by Zhao et al., (2020) Continuous Moonrise
Clouds
Clear and overcast weather during capture event, 0 (overcast) and 1 (clear) from website in link (https://m.tianqi.com/lishi/heshun/201601.html)
Binary
Camera trap
Moonlight Risk Index (MRI) We calculated MRI by multiplying the percentage of the moon illuminated, the proportion of time between sunset and sunrise that the moon was above the horizon, and the proportion of the sky covered in clouds between 0 (overcast) and 1 (clear) Continuous Camera trap
Lunar phase Moon phase was scaled to radians so that 0 relates to New Moon, π/2 as First Quarter, π as Full Moon, and 3π/2 as Last Quarter for each species Continuous Moonrise
Anthropogenic Covariates
Villages Distance to the edge of nearest human settlement Continuous (m)
Roads Distance to the nearest road, including secondary road (small road) and tertiary road (dirt road or logging road) and excluded primary road Continuous (m)