Methods for wildlife monitoring in tropical forests: Comparing human observations, camera traps, and passive acoustic sensors

JA Zwerts, PJ Stephenson, F Maisels… - … Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife monitoring is essential for conservation science and data‐driven decision‐making.
Tropical forests pose a particularly challenging environment for monitoring wildlife due to the …

Methods for monitoring large terrestrial animals in the wild

A Prosekov, A Kuznetsov, A Rada, S Ivanova - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reliable information about wildlife is absolutely important for making informed management
decisions. The issues with the effectiveness of the control and monitoring of both large and …

Camera trapping expands the view into global biodiversity and its change

RY Oliver, F Iannarilli, J Ahumada… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Growing threats to biodiversity demand timely, detailed information on species occurrence,
diversity and abundance at large scales. Camera traps (CTs), combined with computer …

Effects of scent lure on camera trap detections vary across mammalian predator and prey species

D Holinda, JM Burgar, AC Burton - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Camera traps are a unique survey tool used to monitor a wide variety of mammal species.
Camera trap (CT) data can be used to estimate animal distribution, density, and behaviour …

Monitoring endangered and rare wildlife in the field: A foundation deep learning model integrating human knowledge for incremental recognition with few data and …

C Mou, A Liang, C Hu, F Meng, B Han, F Xu - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Intelligent monitoring of endangered and rare wildlife using deep learning
is important for biodiversity conservation. The present study aims to train deep learning …

Mammalian predator and prey responses to recreation and land use across multiple scales provide limited support for the human shield hypothesis

A Granados, C Sun, JT Fisher, A Ladle… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Outdoor recreation is widespread, with uncertain effects on wildlife. The human shield
hypothesis (HSH) suggests that recreation could have differential effects on predators and …

Local knowledge and use of pangolins by culturally diverse communities in the forest-savannah transition area of Cameroon

ADT Mouafo, DJ Ingram… - Tropical …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Information about the presence and population status of pangolins, and the threats they
face, remains limited in many parts of Cameroon, a country that is home to three species of …

Pangolin hunting and trafficking in the forest–savannah transition area of Cameroon

FT Simo, GF Difouo, S Kekeunou, IG Ichu, DJ Ingram… - Oryx, 2023 - cambridge.org
Pangolins have long been hunted for food and for their scales, but information on local
hunting strategies in African range countries and the patterns of pangolin trafficking around …

Extending the conservation impact of great ape research: Flagship species sites facilitate biodiversity assessments and land preservation

D Morgan, S Strindberg, P McElmurray, A Zambarda… - Primates, 2023 - Springer
To inform regional conservation planning, we assessed mammalian and avian biodiversity
in the Djéké Triangle, which is an intact forest with long-term research and tourism focused …

Targeting burrows improves detection in giant pangolin Smutsia gigantea camera-trap surveys

N Matthews, S Nixon, A von Hardenberg, S Isoke… - Oryx, 2023 - cambridge.org
The Endangered giant pangolin Smutsia gigantea is rare and elusive across its Central
African range. Because of its solitary and nocturnal nature, the species is difficult to study …