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 …

Framing pictures: A conceptual framework to identify and correct for biases in detection probability of camera traps enabling multi‐species comparison

TR Hofmeester, JPGM Cromsigt, J Odden… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Obtaining reliable species observations is of great importance in animal ecology and wildlife
conservation. An increasing number of studies use camera traps (CTs) to study wildlife …

Quantifying the movement, behaviour and environmental context of group‐living animals using drones and computer vision

B Koger, A Deshpande, JT Kerby… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Methods for collecting animal behaviour data in natural environments, such as direct
observation and biologging, are typically limited in spatiotemporal resolution, the number of …

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 …

Camera trap placement and the potential for bias due to trails and other features

JM Kolowski, TD Forrester - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Camera trap** has become an increasingly widespread tool for wildlife ecologists, with
large numbers of studies relying on photo capture rates or presence/absence information. It …

Ecological traits and the spatial structure of competitive coexistence among carnivores

P Monterroso, F Díaz‐Ruiz, PM Lukacs, PC Alves… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Competition is a widespread interaction among carnivores, ultimately manifested through
one or more dimensions of the species' ecological niche. One of the most explicit …

Camera trap placement for evaluating species richness, abundance, and activity

KS Tanwar, A Sadhu, YV Jhala - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Information from camera traps is used for inferences on species presence, richness,
abundance, demography, and activity. Camera trap placement design is likely to influence …

A review of factors to consider when using camera traps to study animal behavior to inform wildlife ecology and conservation

A Caravaggi, AC Burton, DA Clark… - … Science and Practice, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Camera traps (CTs) are an increasingly popular method of studying animal behavior.
However, the impact of cameras on detected individuals—such as from mechanical noise …

An improved camera trap for amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, and large invertebrates

MT Hobbs, CS Brehme - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Camera traps are valuable sampling tools commonly used to inventory and monitor wildlife
communities but are challenged to reliably sample small animals. We introduce a novel …

Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring

SB Bassing, M DeVivo, TR Ganz… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating habitat and spatial associations for wildlife is common across ecological studies
and it is well known that individual traits can drive population dynamics and vice versa …