Towards good practice guidance in using camera-traps in ecology: Influence of sampling design on validity of ecological inferences

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 105-113

  Hamel, Sandra ^a   Killengreen, Siw T ^a   Henden, John Andre ^a   Eide, Nina E ^b   Roed Eriksen, Lars ^b   Ims, Rolf A ^a   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic subarctic ecosystem; Detectability; Error rate; Occupancy; Precision; Sampling strategy; Scavengers; Species occurrence

Indexed keywords

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84873546370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210x.2012.00262.x     Document Type: Article

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