Gold mining has rapidly increased in western Amazonia, but the rates and ecological
impacts of mining remain poorly known and potentially underestimated. We combined field …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Camera trapping has become an increasingly widespread tool for wildlife ecologists, with
large numbers of studies relying on photo capture rates or presence/absence information. It …

Over the last two decades, a large number of camera trap surveys have been carried out
around the world and camera traps have been proposed as an ideal tool for inventorying …

The IUCN Red List is widely used to guide conservation policy and practice. However, in
most cases the evaluation of a species using IUCN Red List criteria takes into account only …

Large terrestrial carnivores have undergone some of the largest population declines and
range reductions of any species, which is of concern as they can have large effects on …

Large carnivores such as jaguars (Panthera onca) are species of conservation concern
because they are suffering population declines and are keystone species in their …

Aim Community‐level assessments of how biodiversity responds to disturbance within forest
habitats are often biased towards terrestrial‐based surveys. However, recent research …

Density estimates for large carnivores derived from camera surveys often have wide
confidence intervals due to low detection rates. Such estimates are of limited value to …

Spatially explicit capture–recapture methods, used widely to estimate the abundance of
large carnivores, allow for movement within home ranges during sampling. Probability of …