Effectiveness of Scat Detection Dogs for Detecting Forest Carnivores

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Is Wildlife Going to the Dogs? Impacts of Feral and Free-Roaming Dogs on Wildlife Populations (2011, unknown): “Domestic dogs can also enhance noninvasive wildlife research and management methods (e.g., Cablk and Heaton 2006, Long et al. 2007).”
Predicting carnivore occurrence with noninvasive surveys and occupancy modeling (2011, methodology): “These values for detecting fishers were 0.840, 0.890, and 0.997, respectively (Long et al. 2007b).”
Comparing Scat Detection Dogs, Cameras, and Hair Snares for Surveying Carnivores (2007, methodology): “Raw detection rates based on methods described in Long et al. (2007) were 57.1% (96/168 sites) for black bears, 61.3% for fishers (103/168 sites), and 12.5% for bobcats (21/168 sites).”
The accuracy of scat identification in distribution surveys: American mink, Neovison vison, in the northern highlands of Scotland (2010, background): “Similar errors have been found when attempting to identify canid scats (e.g. Reed et al. 2004; see also Long et al. 2007) and macropod scats (Bukinski and McArthur 2000) on the basis of size and morphological characteristics.”