@article{Wearn:2013:10.1371/journal.pone.0077598,
author = {Wearn, OR and Rowcliffe, JM and Carbone, C and Bernard, H and Ewers, RM},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0077598},
journal = {PLoS One},
pages = {1--9},
title = {Assessing the status of wild felids in a highly-disturbed commercial forest reserve in Borneo and the implications for camera trap survey design},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077598},
volume = {8},
year = {2013}
}

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AB  - The proliferation of camera-trapping studies has led to a spate of extensions in the known distributions of many wild cat species, not least in Borneo. However, we still do not have a clear picture of the spatial patterns of felid abundance in Southeast Asia, particularly with respect to the large areas of highly-disturbed habitat. An important obstacle to increasing the usefulness of camera trap data is the widespread practice of setting cameras at non-random locations. Non-random deployment interacts with non-random space-use by animals, causing biases in our inferences about relative abundance from detection frequencies alone. This may be a particular problem if surveys do not adequately sample the full range of habitat features present in a study region. Using camera-trapping records and incidental sightings from the Kalabakan Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, we aimed to assess the relative abundance of felid species in highly-disturbed forest, as well as investigate felid space-use and the potential for biases resulting from non-random sampling. Although the area has been intensively logged over three decades, it was found to still retain the full complement of Bornean felids, including the bay cat Pardofelis badia, a poorly known Bornean endemic. Camera-trapping using strictly random locations detected four of the five Bornean felid species and revealed inter- and intra-specific differences in space-use. We compare our results with an extensive dataset of >1,200 felid records from previous camera-trapping studies and show that the relative abundance of the bay cat, in particular, may have previously been underestimated due to the use of non-random survey locations. Further surveys for this species using random locations will be crucial in determining its conservation status. We advocate the more wide-spread use of random survey locations in future camera-trapping surveys in order to increase the robustness and generality of inferences that can be ma
AU  - Wearn,OR
AU  - Rowcliffe,JM
AU  - Carbone,C
AU  - Bernard,H
AU  - Ewers,RM
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pone.0077598
EP  - 9
PY  - 2013///
SN  - 1932-6203
SP  - 1
TI  - Assessing the status of wild felids in a highly-disturbed commercial forest reserve in Borneo and the implications for camera trap survey design
T2  - PLoS One
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077598
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UR  - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0077598
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/88867
VL  - 8
ER  - 

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