Rhode Island wildlife camera trap survey 2018 to 2023
Amy E. Mayer, Laken S. Ganoe, Charles Brown, Kylie Rezendes, Jessica Burr, Emerson Paton, Erin Wampole, Kimberly Rivera, Allison M. Stift, Krista L. Noe, Arianna E. Carey, Adriana Hughes, Thomas J. McGreevy, Brian D. Gerber

TL;DR
This paper presents a five-year wildlife camera trap survey in Rhode Island, tracking 39 terrestrial vertebrate species to study how landscape changes affect wildlife populations.
Contribution
The study provides a comprehensive, long-term dataset of wildlife detections in a densely populated, forested state with significant land cover changes.
Findings
Camera traps recorded 244,013 unique detections across 12 survey periods from 249 sites.
The dataset includes 25 mammal species, 13 bird species, and non-personnel humans.
The data can be used for occupancy modeling to analyze wildlife responses to landscape changes.
Abstract
Monitoring wildlife populations through the collection of abundance and distribution data across climatic seasons and multiple years is critical to understanding wildlife spatiotemporal dynamics. This is especially important in landscapes faced with natural and anthropogenic disturbances, which include the state of Rhode Island, USA. Rhode Island is the second most densely populated state in the United States, yet the landscape remains highly forested. Similar to many areas in the region, land cover change and conversion to non‐habitat cover types continue to be an issue as a result of increased anthropogenic disturbance, in addition to recent natural disturbance including forest structural changes from the spongy moth caterpillar ( Lymantria dispar ). These changes in land cover types and landscape patterns have the potential to positively or negatively affect wildlife communities, and…
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Taxonomy
TopicsWildlife Ecology and Conservation · Fire effects on ecosystems · Species Distribution and Climate Change
