Camera traps match live‑trapping for small mammals, cheaper
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“De Bondi et al. (2010) found that camera traps can be used to survey small mammal communities with results similar to traditional live-trapping, while costing less money and taking less time.”
Summary
De Bondi et al. (2010) demonstrated that camera traps yield small‑mammal survey results comparable to traditional live‑trapping while requiring less financial outlay and less field time. Their study concluded that camera trapping is an effective, cost‑ and time‑efficient alternative for monitoring small mammal communities.
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- Determining the efficacy of camera traps, live capture traps, and detection dogs for locating cryptic small mammal species - PMC
In contrast, for the current study, employing the revised vertical mounting design established by De Bondi et al. (2010) and adopted by Gray, Dennis, et al. (2017) permitted fast and confident identification of nearly all individual small mammal images to species level.
- Distance and size matters: A comparison of six wildlife camera traps and their usefulness for wild birds - PMC
A comparison between live trapping and camera traps was carried out by De Bondi, White, Stevens, and Cooke (2010). These authors showed that camera trapping is similar to live traps and they suggest using camera traps for small mammals because it is less costly.
- Estimating the density of small mammals using the selfie trap is an effective camera trapping method - PMC
The selfie trap (a camera trapping method) may present robust sampling and ecological study of small mammals. This study aimed to evaluate the selfie trap method in terms of its ability to detect species and estimate population density. To address this aim, standard small mammal live trapping was undertaken, immediately followed by camera trapping using the selfie trap.
- Camera trap method effectively identifies small mammal species in forested habitats – California Fish and Wildlife Scientific Journal
More recently, camera traps have also been used to survey small mammal species such as rodents and lagomorphs (reviewed in McCallum 2013) and have been shown to have comparable or greater ability to detect species compared to live trapping (e.g., ...
- Use of a novel camera trapping approach to measure small ...
Small mammals, such as small rodents (Rodentia: Muroidea) and shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae), present particular challenges in · camera trap surveys.
- Optimising Camera Traps for Monitoring Small Mammals | PLOS One
It was less successful at detecting animals, and also had a false trigger rate > 90%. With the exception of one night when the Jagath 1000D was triggered over 40 times by strong wind, the other cameras tested in this trial had false trigger ...
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