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 …

[PDF][PDF] " Which camera trap type and how many do I need?" A review of camera features and study designs for a range of wildlife research applications.

F Rovero, F Zimmermann, D Berzi, P Meek - Hystrix, 2013 - italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it
Automatically triggered cameras taking photographs or videos of passing animals (camera
traps) have emerged over the last decade as one of the most powerful tool for wildlife …

Big cats in our backyards: persistence of large carnivores in a human dominated landscape in India

V Athreya, M Odden, JDC Linnell, J Krishnaswamy… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Protected areas are extremely important for the long term viability of biodiversity in a densely
populated country like India where land is a scarce resource. However, protected areas …

Random versus game trail-based camera trap placement strategy for monitoring terrestrial mammal communities

JJ Cusack, AJ Dickman, JM Rowcliffe, C Carbone… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Camera trap surveys exclusively targeting features of the landscape that increase the
probability of photographing one or several focal species are commonly used to draw …

A biodiversity hotspot losing its top predator: The challenge of jaguar conservation in the Atlantic Forest of South America

A Paviolo, C De Angelo, KM Ferraz, RG Morato… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The jaguar is the top predator of the Atlantic Forest (AF), which is a highly threatened
biodiversity hotspot that occurs in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. By combining data sets …

Unifying population and landscape ecology with spatial capture–recapture

JA Royle, AK Fuller, C Sutherland - Ecography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial heterogeneity in the environment induces variation in population demographic rates
and dispersal patterns, which result in spatio‐temporal variation in density and gene flow …

A review of spatial capture–recapture: Ecological insights, limitations, and prospects

M Tourani - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract First described by Efford (2004), spatial capture–recapture (SCR) has become a
popular tool in ecology. Like traditional capture–recapture, SCR methods account for …

Spatially explicit capture-recapture through camera trap**: a review of benchmark analyses for wildlife density estimation

AM Green, MW Chynoweth… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Camera traps have become an important research tool for both conservation biologists and
wildlife managers. Recent advances in spatially explicit capture-recapture (SECR) methods …

Estimating large carnivore populations at global scale based on spatial predictions of density and distribution – Application to the jaguar (Panthera onca)

W Jędrzejewski, HS Robinson, M Abarca, KA Zeller… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Broad scale population estimates of declining species are desired for conservation efforts.
However, for many secretive species including large carnivores, such estimates are often …

Applying a random encounter model to estimate lion density from camera traps in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

JJ Cusack, A Swanson, T Coulson… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The random encounter model (REM) is a novel method for estimating animal density from
camera trap data without the need for individual recognition. It has never been used to …