Animal activity from camera traps

What is it about?

Animals adjust the amount and timing of activity according to season, weather, food availability, predation, disturbance, and various other natural and man-made factors. So it's useful to be able to measure activity cost-effectively, to inform both pure and applied research questions. This method uses camera trap data to measure activity.

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Why is it important?

Existing methods for measuring activity are difficult to apply to many species of mammal, but camera traps are now generating data on a wide variety of previously little known species. Applying this new method to increasingly abundance camera trap data provides the opportunity to expand greatly our understanding of the drivers and impacts of variation in levels of activity, both within and between species.