Marcella J. Kelly

TL;DR: Home range reporting was generally inadequate for reproducing studies; that the methods employed varied considerably; that home range estimates were often reported and analyzed using inappropriate methods; and that many comparisons were made between studies that may produce spurious results.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first applica- tion of a systematic camera trapping methodology for abundance estimation of jaguars was presented, which used a grid of camera traps deployed for 2 months, identified individual animals from their pelage patterns, and estimated population abundance using capture-recapture statistical models.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated trap success among camera types and across species as well as assess habitat selection by target carnivore species, established 16 infrared-triggered camera stations across a 26.9km2 study area located on primarily Jefferson National Forest land in Virginia.

TL;DR: 3-D computer-aided matching does not require familiarity with distinctive features of the particular study animal, it is robust to matcher inexperience and can be modified for other species that have complex and variable pelage patterns.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used obvious and subtle markings to identify individual pumas in photographs and conducted double-blind identifications to examine the degree of agreement among investigators, finding that the average agreement on identification between pairs of investigators was nearly 80.0% and 3-way agreement was 72.9%.