Scaling‐up camera traps: Monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors
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 …
strategic plan need effective tools to monitor global trends in biodiversity. Remote cameras …
Situating ecology as a big-data science: current advances, challenges, and solutions
Ecology has joined a world of big data. Two complementary frameworks define big data:
data that exceed the analytical capacities of individuals or disciplines or the “Four Vs” axes …
data that exceed the analytical capacities of individuals or disciplines or the “Four Vs” axes …
The recent past and promising future for data integration methods to estimate species' distributions
With the advance of methods for estimating species distribution models has come an interest
in how to best combine datasets to improve estimates of species distributions. This has …
in how to best combine datasets to improve estimates of species distributions. This has …
[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.
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 …
traps) have emerged over the last decade as one of the most powerful tool for wildlife …
Recommended guiding principles for reporting on camera trapping research
Camera traps are used by scientists and natural resource managers to acquire ecological
data, and the rapidly increasing camera trapping literature highlights how popular this …
data, and the rapidly increasing camera trapping literature highlights how popular this …
Risky business or simple solution–Relative abundance indices from camera-trapping
Camera-traps are a widely applied to monitor wildlife populations. For individually marked
species, capture–recapture models provide robust population estimates, but for unmarked …
species, capture–recapture models provide robust population estimates, but for unmarked …
Autonomous sound recording outperforms human observation for sampling birds: a systematic map and user guide
Autonomous sound recording techniques have gained considerable traction in the last
decade, but the question remains whether they can replace human observation surveys to …
decade, but the question remains whether they can replace human observation surveys to …
Estimating species richness and modelling habitat preferences of tropical forest mammals from camera trap data
Medium-to-large mammals within tropical forests represent a rich and functionally diversified
component of this biome; however, they continue to be threatened by hunting and habitat …
component of this biome; however, they continue to be threatened by hunting and habitat …
Detecting diversity: emerging methods to estimate species diversity
KJ Iknayan, MW Tingley, BJ Furnas… - Trends in ecology & …, 2014 - cell.com
Estimates of species richness and diversity are central to community and macroecology and
are frequently used in conservation planning. Commonly used diversity metrics account for …
are frequently used in conservation planning. Commonly used diversity metrics account for …
Spatial gaps in global biodiversity information and the role of citizen science
T Amano, JDL Lamming, WJ Sutherland - Bioscience, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Because of a range of constraints, the availability of biodiversity-related information varies
considerably over space, time, taxa, and types of data, thereby causing gaps in knowledge …
considerably over space, time, taxa, and types of data, thereby causing gaps in knowledge …