A comprehensive overview of technologies for species and habitat monitoring and conservation

JJ Lahoz-Monfort, MJL Magrath - BioScience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The range of technologies currently used in biodiversity conservation is staggering, with
innovative uses often adopted from other disciplines and being trialed in the field. We …

Methods for wildlife monitoring in tropical forests: Comparing human observations, camera traps, and passive acoustic sensors

JA Zwerts, PJ Stephenson, F Maisels… - … Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife monitoring is essential for conservation science and data‐driven decision‐making.
Tropical forests pose a particularly challenging environment for monitoring wildlife due to the …

Wilds: A benchmark of in-the-wild distribution shifts

PW Koh, S Sagawa, H Marklund… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Distribution shifts—where the training distribution differs from the test distribution—can
substantially degrade the accuracy of machine learning (ML) systems deployed in the wild …

An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when?

R Kays, BS Arbogast, M Baker‐Whatton… - Methods in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Camera traps deployed in grids or stratified random designs are a well‐established survey
tool for wildlife but there has been little evaluation of study design parameters. We used an …

Snap happy: camera traps are an effective sampling tool when compared with alternative methods

OR Wearn, P Glover-Kapfer - Royal Society open …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Camera traps have become a ubiquitous tool in ecology and conservation. They are
routinely deployed in wildlife survey and monitoring work, and are being advocated as a tool …

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 …

Evaluating relative abundance indices for terrestrial herbivores from large‐scale camera trap surveys

MS Palmer, A Swanson, M Kosmala… - African journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to directly monitor animal populations across time and space is a key element of
wildlife conservation and management, but logistically difficult to achieve. Photographic …

Camera‐trapping version 3.0: current constraints and future priorities for development

P Glover‐Kapfer, CA Soto‐Navarro… - Remote Sensing in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Camera traps are a widely used tool in wildlife research and conservation, but in situ factors
such as theft, poor performance in extreme environments and damage by wildlife may be …

Estimating animal density for a community of species using information obtained only from camera‐traps

OR Wearn, TEM Bell, A Bolitho… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Animal density is a fundamental parameter in ecology and conservation, and yet it has
remained difficult to measure. For terrestrial mammals and birds, camera‐traps have …

PICT: A low‐cost, modular, open‐source camera trap system to study plant–insect interactions

V Droissart, L Azandi, ER Onguene… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Commercial camera traps (CTs) commonly used in wildlife studies have several technical
limitations that restrict their scope of application. They are not easily customizable, unit …