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 …

The jaguar Panthera onca requires large areas of relatively intact habitats containing
adequate amounts of prey to survive. Since a substantial portion of jaguar range occurs …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has emerged as one of the most efficient
methods to assess aquatic species presence. While the method can in theory be used to …

Tropical rain forests worldwide are under increasing pressure from human activities, which
are altering key ecosystem processes such as plant–animal interactions. However, while the …

Studying positional behaviors is important for understanding how animals interact with their
immediate environment. This is particularly important in arboreal species since arboreal …

Disturbances control rainforest dynamics, and, according to the intermediate disturbance
hypothesis (IDH), disturbance regime is a key driver of local diversity. Variations in …

We compared the distribution and occurrence of 15 carnivore species with data collected
monthly over three years by trained native trackers using both sign surveys and an …

Estimating population densities of large wildlife in forests has traditionally relied on either
spatial capture-recapture (SCR) for animals that are individually marked, or line transect …

Tropical forests with a low human population and absence of large-scale deforestation
provide unique opportunities to study successful conservation strategies, which should be …

The effects of biodiversity on the transmission of infectious diseases now stand as a
cornerstone of many public health policies. The upper Amazonia and Guyana shield are hot …