Applying and testing a novel method to estimate animal density from motion‐triggered cameras

M Becker, DJ Huggard, M Dickie, C Warbington… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating animal abundance and density are fundamental goals of many wildlife
monitoring programs. Camera trapping has become an increasingly popular tool to achieve …

Invasive snake causes massive reduction of all endemic herpetofauna on Gran Canaria

JC Piquet, M López-Darias - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Invasive snakes represent a serious threat to island biodiversity, being responsible for far-
reaching impacts that are noticeably understudied, particularly regarding native reptiles. We …

The PELGAS survey: ship-based integrated monitoring of the Bay of Biscay pelagic ecosystem

M Doray, P Petitgas, JB Romagnan, M Huret… - Progress in …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Pélagiques Gascogne (PELGAS) integrated survey has been developed by a
multidisciplinary team of Ifremer and La Rochelle University scientists since 2000, joined by …

Sound level measurements from audio recordings provide objective distance estimates for distance sampling wildlife populations

DA Yip, EC Knight, E Haave‐Audet… - Remote Sensing in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Distance sampling is widely used to estimate animal population densities by accounting for
imperfect detection of individuals with increasing distance from an observer. Distance …

An integrated strategy for monitoring cetaceans in data-poor regions

M Liu, M Lin, L Dong, F Caruso, S Li - Biological Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
A fundamental issue in cetacean conservation is determining the occurrence, distribution,
and habitat use of target species. However, these baselines are extremely deficient in many …

[HTML][HTML] A novel method for using small unoccupied aerial vehicles to survey wildlife species and model their density distribution

C Cleguer, N Kelly, J Tyne, M Wieser, D Peel… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
There is growing interest from research and conservation groups in the potential for using
small unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs;< 2 kg) to conduct wildlife surveys because they are …

[HTML][HTML] Real-time drone derived thermal imagery outperforms traditional survey methods for an arboreal forest mammal

RR Witt, CT Beranek, LG Howell, SA Ryan, J Clulow… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) are cryptic and currently face regional extinction. The direct
detection (physical sighting) of individuals is required to improve conservation management …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing methods suitable for monitoring marine mammals in low visibility conditions during seismic surveys

UK Verfuss, D Gillespie, J Gordon, TA Marques… - Marine Pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Loud sound emitted during offshore industrial activities can impact marine mammals.
Regulations typically prescribe marine mammal monitoring before and/or during these …

Active restoration fosters better recovery of tropical rainforest birds than natural regeneration in degraded forest fragments

P Hariharan, TRS Raman - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological restoration has emerged as a key strategy for conserving tropical forests and
habitat specialists, and monitoring faunal recovery using indicator taxa like birds can help …

Extracting foraging behavior from passive acoustic monitoring data to better understand harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) foraging habitat use

NRE Todd, M Jessopp, E Rogan… - Marine Mammal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
For odontocetes, passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) can be used to differentiate between
occurrence and foraging through analysis of click characteristics. Feeding buzzes and …