Rovero / Zimmermann Camera Trapping for Wildlife Research

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78427-064-3
Verlag: Pelagic Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Data in the Wild

Camera trapping is a powerful and now widely used tool in scientific research on wildlife ecology and management. It provides a unique opportunity for collecting knowledge, investigating the presence of animals, or recording and studying behaviour. Its visual nature makes it easy to successfully convey findings to a wide audience.

This book provides a much-needed guide to the sound use of camera trapping for the most common ecological applications to wildlife research. Each phase involved in the use of camera trapping is covered:

- Selecting the right camera type

- Set-up and field deployment of your camera trap

- Defining the sampling design: presence/absence, species inventory, abundance; occupancy at species level; capture-mark-recapture for density estimation; behavioural studies; community-level analysis

- Data storage, management and analysis for your research topic, with illustrative examples for using R and Excel

- Using camera trapping for monitoring, conservation and public engagement.

Each chapter in this edited volume is essential reading for students, scientists, ecologists, educators and professionals involved in wildlife research or management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rovero, Francesco

Zimmermann, Fridolin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Boitani, Luigi

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Automatische Datenerfassung, Datenanalyse
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Besondere Themen und Arten der Fotografie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Camera features related to specific ecological applications

3. Field deployment of camera traps

4. Camera trap data management and interoperability

5. Presence/absence and species inventory

6. Species-level occupancy analysis

7. Capture–recapture methods for density estimation

8. Behavioural studies

9. Community-level occupancy analysis

10. Camera trapping as a monitoring tool at national and global levels

11. Camera traps and public engagement

Appendices 

Glossary 

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zimmermann, Fridolin
Fridolin Zimmermann is a carnivore conservation scientist with a PhD on Eurasian lynx conservation and ecology. He is currently coordinator of large carnivore monitoring in Switzerland at Carnivore Ecology and Wildlife Management (KORA), Bern.

Rovero, Francesco
Francesco Rovero is an ecologist and conservation scientist with a PhD in animal ecology. He is currently the Curator for Tropical Biodiversity at MUSE Science Museum in Trento, Italy.

Francesco Rovero is an ecologist and conservation scientist with a PhD in animal ecology. He is currently the Curator for Tropical Biodiversity at MUSE Science Museum in Trento, Italy. 

Fridolin Zimmermann is a carnivore conservation scientist with a PhD on Eurasian lynx conservation and ecology. He is currently coordinator of the large carnivore monitoring in Switzerland at Carnivore Ecology and Wildlife Management (KORA).

Collectively they have nearly 30 years of professional experience in the use of camera trapping for wildlife research, and have worked on a range of species, habitat and study types.