Effective sociodemographic population assessment of elusive species in ecology and conservation management.

ABSTRACT: Wildlife managers are urgently searching for improved sociodemographic population assessment methods to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented conservation activities. These need to be inexpensive, appropriate for a wide spectrum of species and straightforward to apply by local staff members with minimal training. Furthermore, conservation management would benefit from single approaches which cover many aspects of population assessment beyond only density estimates, to include for instance social and demographic structure, movement patterns, or species interactions. Remote camera traps have traditionally been used to measure species richness. Currently, there is a rapid move toward using remote camera trapping in density estimation, community ecology, and conservation management. Here,

SUBMITTER: Head JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3790539 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature