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You hear lots of people saying that #cameratraps are great. But just how do they stack up to rival methods (line transects, live traps, detector dogs, eDNA etc)? We had a go at answering this question using available data. 1/n
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First step: we read a tonne of papers (systematically, mind). From thousands of studies, we whittled it down to 104 studies that yielded insights on camera traps vs other sampling methods. It’s obvious from the start: we realllly need more studies on this to be done. 2/n
Next we summarised what the authors of each study had concluded (if anything) about the relative effectiveness of camera traps vs other methods. We also like proper data (ouch), so as well as mushy qualitative data we extracted quantitative data (e.g. # species detected). 3/n
