The development of advanced technologies to enhance conservation science often
outpaces the abilities of wildlife managers to assess and ensure such new tools are safely …

Accurate estimates of animal abundance are essential for guiding effective management,
and poor survey data can produce misleading inferences. Aerial surveys are an efficient …

Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) are proposed as a useful alternative to manned aircraft
for some aerial wildlife surveys. We described the components and current capabilities of a …

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are remote‐controlled devices capable of collecting
information from difficult‐to‐access places while minimizing disturbance. Although UAS are …

Collecting information of ecological and behavioural processes often requires continuous
field monitoring, however, reiterative human presence necessary to obtain monitoring data …

Despite the increasing importance of new survey tools such as unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAV s), the implications of how their spatial deployment may interact with species detection …

Surveys of colonial‐nesting waterbirds are needed to assess population trends and gain
insight into the health of wetland ecosystems. Use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for …

Each year shorebirds from North and South America migrate thousands of miles to spend
the summer in the Arctic. There they feed in shoreline marshes and estuaries along some of …

Understanding of the Everglades' ecological vulnerabilities and restoration needs has
advanced over the past decade but has not been applied in an integrated manner. To …

Waterfowl surveys, especially for endangered waterfowl living in wetlands, are essential to
protect endangered waterfowl and to create a management scenario of their habitats …