Estimating tiger abundance from camera trap data: Field surveys and analytical issues
By: K. Ullas Karanth and James D. Nichols
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Abstract
Automated photography of tigers Panthera tigris for purely illustrative purposes was pioneered by British forester Fred Champion (1927, 1933) in India in the early part of the Twentieth Century. However, it was McDougal (1977) in Nepal who first used camera traps, equipped with single-lens reflex cameras activated by pressure pads, to identify individual tigers and study their social and predatory behaviors. These attempts involved a small number of expensive, cumbersome camera traps, and were not, in any formal sense, directed at “sampling” tiger populations.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Estimating tiger abundance from camera trap data: Field surveys and analytical issues |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-4-431-99495-4_7 |
| Year Published | 2011 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Contributing office(s) | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
| Description | 21 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Camera traps in animal ecology |
| First page | 97 |
| Last page | 117 |
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