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Srbek-Araujo, A.C.; Chiarello, A.G.
Is camera-trapping an efficient method for surveying mammals in Neotropical forests? A case study in south-eastern Brazil
2005 Journal of Tropical Ecology (21): 121-125
Although highly diverse, the Atlantic forest mammal fauna is still poorly known, with very few sites exhaustively inventoried or subjected to long-term studies. Although the first surveys using camera traps were carried out in the 1920s, most studies are rather recent. This is not different in Brazil, where few studies have been published. Given this, the objective of this paper is to assess the efficiency of camera trapping as an inventory technique for Neotropical forests in general and Atlantic forest in particular. The study was conducted at the Santa Lucia Biological Station (SLBS), a biologically rich Atlantic Forest preserve located in south-eastern Brazil where mammals have been intensively live-trapped, observed from line-transects or had indirect evidence of their presence (faeces, footprints, scratches, etc.) recorded in earlier years.
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