An evaluation of camera traps for inventorying large‐ and medium‐sized terrestrial rainforest mammals

By Mathias Tobler, S. E. Carrillo-Percastegui, R. Pitman, Rafael Mares, G. Powell. 2008

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Arboreal camera trapping for the Critically Endangered greater bamboo lemur Prolemur simus (2012, background): “Although camera-trap projects have opportunistically documented arboreal species on the ground (e.g. Tobler et al., 2008; Blake et al., 2010), only a few researchers are beginning to breach the arboreal realm.”
Camera-trapping forest–woodland wildlife of western Uganda reveals how gregariousness biases estimates of relative abundance and distribution (2010, methodology): “We followed common recommendations on sampling a wide area to capture far-ranging species and using many CT stations for long periods (O’Brien et al., 2010; Tobler et al., 2008).”
Estimating mammalian species richness and occupancy in tropical forest canopies with arboreal camera traps (2017, background): “…mammals in forests, including direct observation, tracks and signs, captures and camera traps (Voss and Emmons 1996; Haugaasen and Peres 2005; Norris et al. 2008; Tobler et al. 2008), arboreal mammals have traditionally been surveyed using line transects (Voss and Emmons 1996; Peres 2000).”
Design, evaluate, refine: camera trap studies for elusive species (2008, background): “Of course, not all camera-trapping studies are designed to address the same questions since, for example, some are used for species inventory (Tobler et al., 2008), others for abundance and density (Karanth & Nichols, 1998; Silver et al., 2004) and still others as potential indices of abundance…”
Camera trapping photographic rate as an index of density in forest ungulates (2009, background): “This study, however, by pooling different species, didnot control for the likely variations in trapping rates associated with factors such as different body size (Kelly & Holub 2008; Tobler et al. 2008), trail use (Trolle & Kéry 2003) and daily range (Rowcliffe et al. 2008; Tobler et al. 2008).”
Niche partitioning and species coexistence in a Neotropical felid assemblage. (2010, background): “First, there is a positive correlation between the body mass of a species and its probability of being recorded in a camera trap (Tobler et al., 2008), thus rendering the probability of photographing the smaller cats lower than that of the larger ones.”
Shared resources between giant panda and sympatric wild and domestic mammals (2015, methodology): “We measured our survey effort by the number of 24 h periods (Tobler et al. (2008), and divided the camera-trapping duration at each survey location into 5-day segments (Li et al., 2010a).”
High mammal species turnover in forest patches immersed in biofuel plantations (2017, background): “This is a non-parametric estimator based on the number of unique species contained in eachobservation (Smith andPontius, 2006),which performs better than other estimators for datasets derived from large numbers of camera-days (Tobler et al., 2008).”
camtrapR: an R package for efficient camera trap data management (2016, methodology): “Camera trapping is a powerful and widely used method for the rapid assessment of mammalian biodiversity, particularly in challenging environments (Tobler et al. 2008; Sunarto et al. 2013; Burton et al. 2015).”
A simple method for estimating the effective detection distance of camera traps (2017, result): “This scaling seems to be corresponding to a log10 transformation of body mass, which is also consistent with previous findings (Tobler et al. 2008; Anile and Devillard 2016).”
Influence of camera-trap sampling design on mammal species capture rates and community structures in southeastern Brazil (2013, methodology): “…support to previous studies, indicating that detection is not similar for all species, neither in the same area nor between similar sampling designs (e.g., Tobler et al. 2008, Harmsen et al. 2010), which is aggravated by the stochasticity associated with the camera-trap location and orientation.”
Towards good practice guidance in using camera‐traps in ecology: influence of sampling design on validity of ecological inferences (2013, background): “The behaviour of a species rather than its size might be more influential in a white, open habitat like the Arctic tundra during winter, compared with forests (e.g. Tobler et al. 2008).”
Quantifying the sensitivity of camera traps: an adapted distance sampling approach (2011, background): “…of individually marked species (e.g. Karanth et al. 2006; Linkie et al. 2006; Soisalo & Cavalcanti 2006), for multispecies surveys and species richness inventories (e.g. Silveira, Jacomo, & Diniz-Filho 2003; Tobler et al. 2008), and to estimate species’ occupancy (e.g. Linkie et al. 2007).”