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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2023

Camera Trap Methods and Drone Thermal Surveillance Provide Reliable, Comparable Density Estimates of Large, Free-Ranging Ungulates.

Robert W Baldwin, Jared T Beaver, Max Messinger, Jeffrey Muday, Matt Windsor, Gregory D Larsen, Miles R Silman, T Michael Anderson

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
10.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Thermal drone surveys to detect arboreal fauna: Improving population estimates and threatened species monitoring.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Robert W BaldwinDepartment of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.
Jared T BeaverDepartment of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.
Max MessingerDepartment of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8646-9042
Jeffrey MudayDepartment of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.
Matt WindsorPilot Mountain State Park, North Carolina State Parks, 1792 Pilot Knob Park Rd, Pinnacle, NC 27043, USA.
Gregory D LarsenDepartment of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.
Miles R SilmanDepartment of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.
T Michael AndersonDepartment of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.
Wake Forest University · USMontana State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Camera traps and drone surveys both leverage advancing technologies to study dynamic wildlife populations with little disturbance. Both techniques entail strengths and weaknesses, and common camera trap methods can be confounded by unrealistic assumptions and prerequisite conditions. We compared three methods to estimate the population density of white-tailed deer (

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camera trappingdensity estimatesdronesimperfect detectionmark–resightN-mixture modelingNorth CarolinaOdocoileus virginianuspopulation estimationthermal imaging

Identifiers

PMID37889800
PMCPMC10252056
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