Building useful models of species distributions requires attention to several important issues,
one being imperfect detection of species. Data sets of species detections are likely to suffer …

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 …

Over the past half century, migratory birds in North America have shown divergent
population trends relative to resident species, with the former declining rapidly and the latter …

The past decade has seen an explosion in the development and application of models
aimed at estimating species occurrence and occupancy dynamics while accounting for …

Assessing spatial distributions of threatened large carnivores at landscape scales poses
formidable challenges because of their rarity and elusiveness. As a consequence of …

The probability that a site has at least one individual of a species ('occupancy') has come to
be widely used as a state variable for animal population monitoring. The available statistical …

Large and medium‐bodied rainforest canopy mammals are typically surveyed using line
transects, but these are labour intensive and usually ignore nocturnal species. Camera traps …

An important first step in studying the demography of wild animals is to identify the animals
uniquely through applying markings, such as rings, tags, and bands. Once the animals are …

The critically endangered Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae Pocock, 1929) is
generally known as a forest-dependent animal. With large-scale conversion of forests into …

Many interventions to stem wildlife poaching have overlooked insights into human
behaviour offered by the social sciences. South‐East Asia suffers the world's highest rate of …