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
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.
...a thorough, concise handbook on how to design and conduct a
study involving camera traps. It would be very useful for both
under- and post-graduates and for those, like me, who are new to
the subject, so I thoroughly recommend it for a university library
and for anyone who is considering using camera traps as a component
of a study.
*Primate Eye*
If you are surveying in a systematic way through trail cameras you
will need to structure the sampling and analyse the results in
methodical ways. It is here that a recent book from Pelagic
Publishing, Camera Trapping for Wildlife Research, provides much
use. With a scholarly approach and abundant references, the book
has detailed advice on camera trapping for faunal inventories,
occupancy studies, capture-recapture methods, and behavioural
studies. The book excels in its detail on survey design, sampling
design, and data management. There is an extended case study of
Eurasian lynx abundance and density estimation in the NW Swiss
Alps, while the behavioural studies section looks at Eurasian lynx
scent marking as well as the tree rubbing behaviour of brown
bears.
*ECOS*
An in-depth overview of the logistics of studies that use
camera traps and provides numerous real-world examples
of analyzing data collected by camera traps using
contemporary approaches. I believe that the book is a must for
wildlife researchers considering the use of camera traps.
*Journal of Wildlife Management*
It is well-written, and its few images are well chosen to
illustrate and clarify relevant concepts. The structure is
sensible, taking the reader from introductory chapters about camera
types, deployment and survey design through to more in-depth
chapters describing how this information can be analysed and
interpreted.
*BTO About Birds*
As Professor Luigi Boitani states in his foreword, "This book is
exactly what all field biologists need to have to learn about the
current state of development of the technique". Based on decades of
direct experience, well before the arrival of the modern digital
camera trap, the book covers almost all the facets of using
"photographic trapping" to obtain data on wildlife. The entire text
is written with a direct approach, taking into account the
real-world problems (and their solutions, that the Authors devised
in several years of practice) occurring to anyone using camera
trapping, from trapping scheme design to data analysis, not
excluding new developments such as large-scale monitoring and
citizen science. The impressive, thorough coverage of so many
different topics has been achieved thanks to the active
participation of other contributors (Jorge A. Ahumada, Eric Fergus,
Danilo Foresti, Johanna Hurtado Astaiza, James MacCarthy, Paul
Meek, Badru Mugerwa, Timothy G. O'Brien, Daniel Spitale and Simone
Tenan, to name a few), that shared their direct experience in the
field. Notwithstanding the practical approach, in each case (and in
particiular in the chapters dealing with experimental design and
data analysis applications) the theoretical background is just
there, briefly recapitulated in a way useful to beginners as an
introduction to more in-depth references, but also useful to the
expert, as a beneficial refresher.
*Hystrix - Italian Journal of Mammalogy*
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