CTFS‐Forest GEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, SJ Davies… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

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 …

Automatically identifying, counting, and describing wild animals in camera-trap images with deep learning

MS Norouzzadeh, A Nguyen… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Having accurate, detailed, and up-to-date information about the location and behavior of
animals in the wild would improve our ability to study and conserve ecosystems. We …

camtrapR: an R package for efficient camera trap data management

J Niedballa, R Sollmann, A Courtiol… - Methods in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Camera trap** is a widely applied method to study mammalian biodiversity and is still
gaining popularity. It can quickly generate large amounts of data which need to be managed …

Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna

A Swanson, M Kosmala, C Lintott, R Simpson, A Smith… - Scientific data, 2015 - nature.com
Camera traps can be used to address large-scale questions in community ecology by
providing systematic data on an array of wide-ranging species. We deployed 225 camera …

Building essential biodiversity variables (EBV s) of species distribution and abundance at a global scale

WD Kissling, JA Ahumada, A Bowser… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Much biodiversity data is collected worldwide, but it remains challenging to assemble the
scattered knowledge for assessing biodiversity status and trends. The concept of E ssential …

Towards automatic wild animal monitoring: Identification of animal species in camera-trap images using very deep convolutional neural networks

AG Villa, A Salazar, F Vargas - Ecological informatics, 2017 - Elsevier
Non-intrusive monitoring of animals in the wild is possible using camera trap** networks.
The cameras are triggered by sensors in order to disturb the animals as little as possible …

Recommended guiding principles for reporting on camera trap** research

PD Meek, G Ballard, A Claridge, R Kays… - Biodiversity and …, 2014 - Springer
Camera traps are used by scientists and natural resource managers to acquire ecological
data, and the rapidly increasing camera trap** literature highlights how popular this …

Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network

JA Ahumada, CEF Silva… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Terrestrial mammals are a key component of tropical forest communities as indicators of
ecosystem health and providers of important ecosystem services. However, there is little …

Wildlife insights: A platform to maximize the potential of camera trap and other passive sensor wildlife data for the planet

JA Ahumada, E Fegraus, T Birch, N Flores… - Environmental …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Wildlife is an essential component of all ecosystems. Most places in the globe do not have
local, timely information on which species are present or how their populations are …