Accurate population estimation of Caprinae using camera traps and distance sampling.

ABSTRACT: With most of the world's Caprinae taxa threatened with extinction, the IUCN appeals to the development of simple and affordable sampling methods that will produce credible abundance and distribution data for helping conserve these species inhabiting remote areas. Traditional sampling approaches, like aerial sampling or mark-capture-recapture, can generate bias by failing to meet sampling assumptions, or by incurring too much cost and logistical burden for most projects to address them. Therefore, we met the IUCN's challenge by testing a sampling technique that leverages imagery from camera traps with conventional distance sampling, validating its operability in mountainous topography by comparing results to known abundances. Our project occurred within a captive facility housing a wild pop

SUBMITTER: Harris GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7576118 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature