Authors
A Cole Burton, Eric Neilson, Dario Moreira, Andrew Ladle, Robin Steenweg, Jason T Fisher, Erin Bayne, Stan Boutin
Publication date
2015/6
Source
Journal of applied ecology
Volume
52
Issue
3
Pages
675-685
Description
- Reliable assessment of animal populations is a long‐standing challenge in wildlife ecology. Technological advances have led to widespread adoption of camera traps (CTs) to survey wildlife distribution, abundance and behaviour. As for any wildlife survey method, camera trapping must contend with sources of sampling error such as imperfect detection. Early applications focused on density estimation of naturally marked species, but there is growing interest in broad‐scale CT surveys of unmarked populations and communities. Nevertheless, inferences based on detection indices are controversial, and the suitability of alternatives such as occupancy estimation is debatable.
- We reviewed 266 CT studies published between 2008 and 2013. We recorded study objectives and methodologies, evaluating the consistency of CT protocols and sampling designs, the extent to which CT surveys considered sampling …
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AC Burton, E Neilson, D Moreira, A Ladle, R Steenweg… - Journal of applied ecology, 2015