Camera trapping is a powerful and now widely used tool in scientific research on wildlife ecology and management. It provides a unique opportunity for collecting knowledge, investigating the presence of animals, or recording and studying behaviour. Its visual nature makes it easy to successfully convey findings to a wide audience. This book provides a much-needed guide to the sound use of camera trapping for the most common ecological applications to wildlife research. Each phase involved in the use of camera trapping is covered: - Selecting the right camera type - Set-up and field deployment of your camera trap - Defining the sampling design: presence/absence, species inventory, abundance; occupancy at species level; capture-mark-recapture for density estimation; behavioural studies; community-level analysis - Data storage, management and analysis for your research topic, with illustrative examples for using R and Excel - Using camera trapping for monitoring, conservation and public engagement. Each chapter in this edited volume is essential reading for students, scientists, ecologists, educators and professionals involved in wildlife research or management. It is well-written, and its few images are well chosen to illustrate and clarify relevant concepts. The structure is sensible, taking the reader from introductory chapters about camera types, deployment and survey design through to more in-depth chapters describing how this information can be analysed and interpreted. -- Mark Wilson, former Internet Crimes Against Children Detective ― BTO About Birds The entire text is written with a direct approach, taking into account the real-world problems (and their solutions, that the Authors devised in several years of practice) occurring to anyone using camera trapping, from trapping scheme design to data analysis, not excluding new developments such as large-scale monitoring and citizen science. ― Hystrix, Italian Journal of Mammalogy An in-depth overview of the logistics of studies that use camera traps and provides numerous real-world examples of analyzing data collected by camera traps using contemporary approaches. I believe that the book is a must for wildlife researchers considering the use of camera traps. -- Adam Duarte, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University ― Journal of Wildlife Management Francesco Rovero is an ecologist and conservation scientist with a PhD in animal ecology. He is currently the Curator for Tropical Biodiversity at MUSE Science Museum in Trento, Italy.  Fridolin Zimmermann is a carnivore conservation scientist with a PhD on Eurasian lynx conservation and ecology. He is currently coordinator of the large carnivore monitoring in Switzerland at Carnivore Ecology and Wildlife Management (KORA). Collectively they have nearly 30 years of professional experience in the use of camera trapping for wildlife research, and have worked on a range of species, habitat and study types. Camera Trapping for Wildlife Research By Francesco Rovero, Fridolin Zimmermann Pelagic Publishing Copyright © 2016 Francesco Rovero and Fridolin Zimmermann All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-78427-048-3 Contents About the editors, About the contributors, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements, Online resources, 1. Introduction Francesco Rovero and Fridolin Zimmermann, 2. Camera features related to specific ecological applications Francesco Rovero and Fridolin Zimmermann, 3. Field deployment of camera traps Fridolin Zimmermann and Francesco Rovero, 4. Camera trap data management and interoperability Eric Fegraus and James MacCarthy, 5. Presence/absence and species inventory Francesco Rovero and Daniel Spitale, 6. Species-level occupancy analysis Francesco Rovero and Daniel Spitale, 7. Capture–recapture methods for density estimation Fridolin Zimmermann and Danilo Foresti, 8. Behavioural studies Fridolin Zimmermann, Danilo Foresti and Francesco Rovero, 9. Community-level occupancy analysis Simone Tenan, 10. Camera trapping as a monitoring tool at national and global levels Jorge A. Ahumada, Timothy G. O'Brien, Badru Mugerwa and Johanna Hurtado, 11. Camera traps and public engagement Paul Meek and Fridolin Zimmermann, Appendices, Glossary, Index, CHAPTER 1 Introduction Francesco Rovero and Fridolin Zimmermann Camera trapping is the use of remotely triggered cameras that automatically take images and/or videos of animals or other subjects passing in front of them. This technology is changing rapidly, largely driven by market demands in the northern hemisphere, with a large proportion of the buyers being recreational hunters. The majority of commercially available camera trap models are passive infrared digital cameras triggered by an infrared sensor detecting a differential in heat and motion between the background temperature and a moving subject, such as animals, people, or even a vehicle, passing in front of them (see Chapter 2). Ca