Employing Camera Traps for Studying Habitat Use by Crocodiles in a Mangrove Forest in Sarawak, Borneo
Effective wildlife monitoring for conservation relies on census methods that deliver cost effective and logistically efficient data. Camera trapping has become a common tool in contemporary wildlife science, helping researchers collect images of uncommon or rarely seen and often threatened speci...
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Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
2016
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19431/1/1.%20Mohd-Azlan%20et%20al.%20%28camera%20trapping%29%20%28abstrak%29.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19431/ https://ssarherps.org/publications/herpetological-review/ |
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| Summary: | Effective wildlife monitoring for conservation relies on
census methods that deliver cost effective and logistically
efficient data. Camera trapping has become a common tool
in contemporary wildlife science, helping researchers collect
images of uncommon or rarely seen and often threatened species
as evidence. The development of camera trapping technique
has led to significant advancement of the understanding of the
diversity of animals and has helped detect secretive species that
survive in low densities (e.g., Mohd-Azlan 2003; Mohd-Azlan et
al. 2003). However, relatively few studies of crocodilians have
employed the technique (Thorbjarnarson et al. 2000; Channa
et al. 2010; Charruau and Hénaut 2012; Platt et al. 2014a), and
one recent survey reported a lack of success (Platt et al. 2014b),
possibly due to lack of technical modification of motion-sensitive
infrared cameras (Merchant et al. 2012). |
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