January 17, 2025Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical SocietyOpen Access

Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis

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TBTom BruceAfrican Wildlife Foundation ZAZachary AmirAustralian Wildlife Conservancy BABenjamin L. AllenReef Ecologic

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Continental synthesis reveals plateauing effort and analytical biases in Australian wildlife camera trapping, highlighting the need for standardized collaborative data infrastructure.

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Bias-prone capture rates still account for ~50% of analytical outputs from camera traps as sampling effort reaches an operational plateau across surveyed terrestrial vertebrate studies.
Synthesising a literature review, an online questionnaire of 132 professionals, and an expert workshop, this review assessed a decade of terrestrial vertebrates camera trap research.
Highlights the urgent need for a national data observatory to implement computer vision platforms and standardized detection histories suitable for robust hierarchical modelling.

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Bruce et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68ff82aebed84fbfcf268f25 https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13152

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Continental synthesis reveals plateauing effort and analytical biases in Australian wildlife camera trapping, highlighting the need for standardized collaborative data infrastructure.

Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis

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Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis

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