Wildlife camera trap**: a review and recommendations for linking surveys to ecological processes

AC Burton, E Neilson, D Moreira, A Ladle… - Journal of applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Reliable assessment of animal populations is a long‐standing challenge in wildlife ecology.
Technological advances have led to widespread adoption of camera traps (CT s) to survey …

Scaling‐up camera traps: Monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors

R Steenweg, M Hebblewhite, R Kays… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Countries committed to implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity's 2011–2020
strategic plan need effective tools to monitor global trends in biodiversity. Remote cameras …

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 …

Abundance estimation of unmarked animals based on camera‐trap data

NA Gilbert, JDJ Clare, JL Stenglein… - Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid improvement of camera traps in recent decades has revolutionized biodiversity
monitoring. Despite clear applications in conservation science, camera traps have seldom …

Characterizing soundscapes across diverse ecosystems using a universal acoustic feature set

SS Sethi, NS Jones, BD Fulcher… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Natural habitats are being impacted by human pressures at an alarming rate. Monitoring
these ecosystem-level changes often requires labor-intensive surveys that are unable to …

A gentle introduction to camera‐trap data analysis

R Sollmann - African Journal of Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Camera traps are increasingly used to study wildlife ecology and inform conservation, but
valid inference depends on appropriate data analysis. This article introduces the most …

Distance sampling with camera traps

EJ Howe, ST Buckland… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Reliable estimates of animal density and abundance are essential for effective wildlife
conservation and management. Camera trap** has proven efficient for sampling multiple …

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 …

Use of camera traps for wildlife studies: a review

F Trolliet, C Vermeulen, MC Huynen… - … , Agronomie, Société et …, 2014 - orbi.uliege.be
As human threats continue to impact natural habitats, there is an increasing need to
regularly monitor the trends in large vertebrate populations. Conservation efforts must be …

Evaluating relative abundance indices for terrestrial herbivores from large‐scale camera trap surveys

MS Palmer, A Swanson, M Kosmala… - African journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to directly monitor animal populations across time and space is a key element of
wildlife conservation and management, but logistically difficult to achieve. Photographic …