Do you have a favorite study that used camera traps? I'm looking for more diverse applications to show my mammalogy & movement ecology students. We'd all appreciate non-me opinions!
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My own examples. I really like this super recent paper by & testing carnivore coexistence via human shield in urban settings: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea
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And et al's targeting of how hunting and hiking impact wildlife communities in protected areas:
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For diversity of topics I like this phenology paper by lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100
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Nice! Good application for "by-catch" 
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Another great one by (and !) that is creative in the way they use activity time & temperature to put animal behavior in a climate change perspective
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Non-biologist here. I know of a amphibian project for "underpasses" :
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If you click through their site, they have many more projects, that even involve accoustic counting systems for wolves...
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In terms of going from complicated multi-species occupancy model” to easy to interpret alpha / beta diversity estimates, I’m a huge fan of ’s paper here (full disclosure I’m a coauthor):
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This new paper looks interesting - it might be a tad more methodological, but I like the combination of multiple data types and country-level approach: tinyurl.com/vsked78m
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Take a look on this Teague. It is not usefull for movement lessons but maybe yes for mammalogy. Here we compiled a huge amount of camera trap data
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I really like this paper applying camera traps under the snow. We still know so little about what is going on about half of the year with the small mammals inhabiting the arctic.
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Or this great experiment using stuffed toys from Ikea in front of camera traps to study survival of camouflaged and mismatched individuals. nature.com/articles/s4159
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This one by et al is one of my favorites: estimating density, incorporating an animal movement model doi.org/10.1111/2041-2
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So many cool studies to consider! I liked the innovative integration of camera traps and playback experiments by and colleagues:
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Totally! Some of my faves are cue experiments, like audio playbacks by and scent cue additions by . In the review that Cole mentioned, we published all of the papers used in the review in the supplemental material - could be useful!
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For other applications not mentioned, I think camera trapping resources is underutilized. At the risk of being tacky by recommending a paper from our lab, camera trapping seed predation and secondary seed dispersal was pretty fun
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Links between #salmon, bears, seed dispersal & small mammals in coastal Alaska. @taaltree
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But also camera trapping the fruit
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Black bear feeding on Devil's Club. Bears, not birds, are primary seed dispersers of its seeds. But brown bears seem to disperse even more than black bears - near Haines, AK
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