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 …

Next-generation camera trapping: systematic review of historic trends suggests keys to expanded research applications in ecology and conservation

ZJ Delisle, EA Flaherty, MR Nobbe… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Camera trapping is an effective non-invasive method for collecting data on wildlife species
to address questions of ecological and conservation interest. We reviewed 2,167 camera …

An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when?

R Kays, BS Arbogast, M Baker‐Whatton… - Methods in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Camera traps deployed in grids or stratified random designs are a well‐established survey
tool for wildlife but there has been little evaluation of study design parameters. We used an …

Three novel methods to estimate abundance of unmarked animals using remote cameras

AK Moeller, PM Lukacs, JS Horne - Ecosphere, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abundance and density estimates are central to the field of ecology and are an important
component of wildlife management. While many methods exist to estimate abundance from …

Wildlife winners and losers in an oil sands landscape

JT Fisher, AC Burton - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Energy development and consumption drive changes in global climate, landscapes, and
biodiversity. The oil sands of western Canada are an epicenter of oil production, creating …

Methodology matters when estimating deer abundance: a global systematic review and recommendations for improvements

DM Forsyth, S Comte, NE Davis… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Deer (Cervidae) are key components of many ecosystems and estimating deer abundance
or density is important to understanding these roles. Many field methods have been used to …

eDNA sampled from stream networks correlates with camera trap detection rates of terrestrial mammals

A Lyet, L Pellissier, A Valentini, T Dejean… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Biodiversity monitoring delivers vital information to those making conservation decisions.
Comprehensively measuring terrestrial biodiversity usually requires costly methods that can …

High‐density camera trap grid reveals lack of consistency in detection and capture rates across space and time

JM Kolowski, J Oley, WJ McShea - Ecosphere, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Counts of independent photo events from camera traps are commonly used to make
inference about species occupancy, the density of unmarked populations, and the relative …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating density for species conservation: Comparing camera trap spatial count models to genetic spatial capture-recapture models

JM Burgar, FEC Stewart, JP Volpe, JT Fisher… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Density estimation is integral to the effective conservation and management of wildlife.
Camera traps in conjunction with spatial capture-recapture (SCR) models have been used …

The influence of movement on the occupancy–density relationship at small spatial scales

MS Rogan, GA Balme, G Distiller, RT Pitman… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The global decline of large carnivores demands effective and efficient methods to monitor
population status, particularly using non‐invasive methods. Density is among the most …