Open AccessA long term inventory of medium and large mammals with camera-traps in Las Tablas Protected Zone, Costa Rica.
Author(s) -
José F. GonzálezMaya,
Jan Schipper,
Fernando Castañeda
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
mammalogy notes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2382-3704
DOI - 10.47603/manovol1n1.15-16
Subject(s) - tropics , term (time) , ecosystem , mammal , camera trap , component (thermodynamics) , medium term , geography , environmental science , ecology , biology , habitat , physics , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics , macroeconomics , economics
Large mammals are a critical component of tropical ecosystems, especially for the tropics (Terborgh 1988, Cardillo et al. 2005). Nevertheless, is not until recently that with the emergence and widespread use of non-invasive techniques such as camera-traps, that we are getting a large amount ofinformation on medium and large-size mammal assemblages.