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Exploring patterns of female house mouse spatial organisation among outbreaking and stable populations

Ecology and Evolution
The size and distribution of home ranges reflect how individuals within a population use, defend, and share space and resources, and may thus be an important predictor of population‐level dynamics.
Nikki Van de Weyer, Wendy A. Ruscoe, Peter R. Brown, Steve Henry, Freya Robinson, Lyn A. Hinds, Kevin P. Oh   +6 more
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Exploring mark-resighting-recovery models to study savannah tree demographics [PDF]

Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2004
Despite their sessile nature, juvenile trees in savannah ecosystems are not always easy to encounter. Here, the remedy of choice in animal studies, capture-recapture modelling, is evaluated with respect to plants.
Lahoreau, G., Gignoux, J., Julliard, R.
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Development and Evaluation of a Low‐Cost, Semi‐Automated Camera Trap for Surveying Bumble Bee Communities

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Camera traps are emerging as a useful tool for noninvasive insect monitoring; however, it remains unclear how to lure diurnal insects to traps, how to detect them upon arrival, and how camera‐based methods compare to conventional sampling. We developed a low‐cost, open‐source camera trap to monitor wild bumble bees in agricultural fields. We found that
Michael P. Getz, Lincoln R. Best, Oksana Ostroverkhova, Andony P. Melathopoulos, Timothy L. Warren   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Citizen Science for Individual Identification of Pine Martens Martes martes From Camera Trap Footage

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Camera traps generate large volumes of wildlife footage, but identifying animals to the individual level remains challenging and time‐consuming. Using European pine martens in the Forest of Dean as a case study, we assessed whether citizen scientists could identify individuals from camera trap photos and videos.
Sian E. Green, Philip A. Stephens, Josie Bridges, Catherine M. McNicol, Russell A. Hill   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A comparison of abundance estimators for small mammal populations

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2013
A major difficulty in the application of probabilistic models to estimations of mammal abundance is obtaining a data set that meets all of the assumptions of the model.
Marcelle Pacheco, Maja Kajin, Rosana Gentile, Priscilla L. Zangrandi, Marcus V. Vieira, Rui Cerqueira   +5 more
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Efficient and Accurate Spatio‐Temporal Population Monitoring of Mobile Animals Using Drones and Computer Vision

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Drones and computer vision offer an efficient way to estimate animal populations over localized areas, but surveys often require stitching many overlapping images together. If animals move during the survey, traditional orthomosaic‐based counting methods become unreliable, with some animals appearing in multiple locations while others appear not at all,
Benjamin Koger, Albert B. Kao, Curry J. Cunningham, Thomas P. Quinn, Caroline Kittle, Andrew M. Berdahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population dynamics of Gracilinanus agilis (Didelphidae) during a period of extreme drought in a Caatinga Biome Fragment

Cadernos Cajuína
Precipitation has been identified as a key driver of the population dynamics of small mammals in seasonal environments, particularly in semiarid regions.
Rebeca Mascarenhas Fonseca Barreto, Jaranna Thaiane Coelho Barbosa, Uitamara dos Santos, Camila Silva de Lavor, Barbara Cristina Vieira da Silva   +4 more
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Small‐Scale Magnetic Soft Robots for Medical Applications: From Laboratory to Clinical Use

SmartBot, EarlyView.
Small‐scale magnetic soft robots are emerging as promising platforms for minimally invasive diagnosis and therapy in complex in vivo environments. This review compares untethered and tethered medical magnetic robots in parallel across five translational stages, from basic performance testing to clinical evaluation.
Xingxing Ke, Shizhi Li, Tianrui Zhang, Yue Zhong, Songyang Li, Shuo Zhang, Zhiping Chai, Menghao Pu, Zisheng Zong, Haochen Yong, Xingxing Dong, Lanting Huang, Zhen Deng, Shuaizheng Yan, Yue Zhang, Zhaoju Zhu, Mingzhu Zhu, Linze Li, Ruiquan Chen, Shu Zhang, Chong Wu, Di Wu, Lei Yang, Rui Chen, Tongzhi Niu, Hongling Qin, Han Ding, Bingwei He, Siqi Wu, Zhigang Wu   +29 more
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A comparison of thermal drones and camera trap population estimates for Sitka black‐tailed deer in Alaska

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
One of the most difficult challenges for wildlife managers is reliably estimating wildlife populations. Camera traps combined with spatial capture–recapture (SCR) models are a popular tool for population estimation. They have limitations, however, including long data processing times.
Shannon P. Finnegan, Amael Hinojo, Sarah Monod, William A. Wall, Peter Olsen, Maximilian L. Allen   +5 more
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A playful experience of capture-mark-recapture for initiation to probabilistic reasoning indispensable to the apprentice-statistician.

, 2020
Capture-mark-recapture techniques are smart non-invasive sampling methods to evaluate the number of individuals in a population. Primarily used in ecology, they also find a much broader scope for investigations in various fields. From a pedagogical standpoint, they nicely illustrate, in a very simple and practical way, many key points of probabilistic ...
Parent, Éric, Boreux, Jean-Jacques, Rivot, Etienne, Ancelet, Sophie   +3 more
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