REVIEW: Wildlife camera trapping: a review and recommendations for linking surveys to ecological processes

Summary Reliable assessment of animal populations is a long‐standing challenge in wildlife ecology. Technological advances have led to widespread adoption of camera traps ( CT s) to survey wildlife distribution, abundance and behaviour. As for any wildlife survey method, camera trapping must contend with sources of sampling error such as imperfect detection. Early applications focused on density estimation of naturally marked species, but there is growing interest in broad‐scale CT surveys of unmarked populations and communities. Nevertheless, inferences based on detection indices are controversial, and the suitability of alternatives such as occupancy estimation is debatable. We reviewed 266 CT studies…

• AB
  Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
• NS
  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

  Award: SFR1451