Drones count wildlife more accurately and precisely than humans

Unmanned aircraft systems to unravel spatial and temporal factors affecting dynamics of colony formation and nesting success in birds

(2017) Francesc Sardà-Palomera et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

An accurate and adaptable photogrammetric approach for estimating the mass and body condition of pinnipeds using an unmanned aerial system

(2017) Douglas J. Krause et al.   PLoS One

Best practice for minimising unmanned aerial vehicle disturbance to wildlife in biological field research

(2016) Jarrod C. Hodgson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Unmanned aircraft systems in wildlife research: current and future applications of a transformative technology

(2016) Katherine S Christie et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Computer-automated bird detection and counts in high-resolution aerial images: a review

(2016) Dominique Chabot et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Spatial Ecology of Estuarine Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) Nesting in a Fragmented Landscape

(2016) Luke Evans et al.   SENSORS

Assessing the cost-efficiency of environmental DNA sampling

(2016) Adam S. Smart et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Noninvasive unmanned aerial vehicle provides estimates of the energetic cost of reproduction in humpback whales

(2016) Fredrik Christiansen et al.   Ecosphere

Precision wildlife monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles

(2016) Jarrod C. Hodgson et al.   Scientific Reports

Monitoring the near-extinct European weather loach in Denmark based on environmental DNA from water samples

(2015) Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Environmental DNA sampling is more sensitive than a traditional survey technique for detecting an aquatic invader

(2015) Adam S. Smart et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Low-budget ready-to-fly unmanned aerial vehicles: an effective tool for evaluating the nesting status of canopy-breeding bird species

(2015) M. H. Weissensteiner et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Are unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) the future of wildlife monitoring? A review of accomplishments and challenges

(2015) Julie Linchant et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Aquatic animal telemetry: A panoramic window into the underwater world

(2015) N. E. Hussey et al.   SCIENCE

Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

(2015) R. Kays et al.   SCIENCE

Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity

(2015) Stuart L. Pimm et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

(2015) G. Ceballos et al.   Science Advances

Population Census of a Large Common Tern Colony with a Small Unmanned Aircraft

(2015) Dominique Chabot et al.   PLoS One

The role of global trade and transport network topology in the human-mediated dispersal of alien species

(2014) Natalie Clare Banks et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems as a Rhinoceros Anti-Poaching Tool in Africa

(2014) Margarita Mulero-Pázmány et al.   PLoS One

American Exceptionalism: Population Trends and Flight Initiation Distances in Birds from Three Continents

(2014) Anders Pape Møller et al.   PLoS One

Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology

(2013) Karen Anderson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Rotation-Invariant HOG Descriptors Using Fourier Analysis in Polar and Spherical Coordinates

(2013) Kun Liu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION

Unmanned Aerial Survey of Elephants

(2013) Cédric Vermeulen et al.   PLoS One

Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines

(2013) A. Waldron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimating animal population density using passive acoustics

(2012) Tiago A. Marques et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Academia's obsession with quantity

(2012) Joern Fischer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evaluation of an off-the-shelf Unmanned Aircraft System for Surveying Flocks of Geese

(2012) Dominique Chabot et al.   WATERBIRDS

Fine-scale bird monitoring from light unmanned aircraft systems

(2011) FRANCESC SARDÀ-PALOMERA et al.   IBIS

Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Low-Altitude Aerial Surveys

(2011) ADAM C. WATTS et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Distinguishing technology from biology: a critical review of the use of GPS telemetry data in ecology

(2010) M. Hebblewhite et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predator interactions, mesopredator release and biodiversity conservation

(2009) Euan G. Ritchie et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trade, transport and trouble: managing invasive species pathways in an era of globalization

(2009) Philip E. Hulme   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Surveys using camera traps: are we looking to a brighter future?

(2008) J. M. Rowcliffe et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION