CamTrapAsia: A dataset of tropical forest vertebrate communities from 239 camera trapping studies

• Main Authors: Calebe P. Mendes, Wido R. Albert, Zachary Amir, Marc Ancrenaz, Eric Ash, Badrul Azhar, Henry Bernard, Jedediah Brodie, Tom Bruce, Elliot Carr, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Glyn Davies, Nicolas J. Deere, Yoan Dinata, Christl A. Donnelly, Somphot Duangchantrasiri, Gabriella Fredriksson, Benoit Goossens, Alys Granados, Andrew Hearn, Jason Hon, Tom Hughes, Patrick Jansen, Kae Kawanishi, Margaret Kinnaird, Sharon Koh, Alice Latinne, Matthew Linkie, Federica Loi, Anthony J. Lynam, Erik Meijaard, Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan, Jonathan H. Moore, Senthilvel K. S. S. Nathan, Dusit Ngoprasert, Wilson Novarino, Ilyas Nursamsi, Timothy O’Brien, Robert Ong, John Payne, Dolly Priatna, D. Mark Rayan, Glen Reynolds, Rustam Rustam, Sasidhran Selvadurai, Amanda Shia, Muhammad Silmi, Pablo Sinovas, Kriangsak Sribuarod, Robert Steinmetz, Matthew J. Struebig, Ronglarp Sukmasuang, Sunarto Sunarto, Tarmizi Tarmizi, Arjun Thapa, Carl Traeholt, Oliver R. Wearn, Hariyo B. Wibisono, Andreas Wilting, Seth Timothy Wong, Siew Te Wong, Jettie Word, Wen Xuan Chiok, Zainal Zahari Zainuddin, Matthew Scott Luskin
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons Ltd and CNRS 2024
• Subjects: QH1-278.5 Natural history (General); QH540-549.5 Ecology
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/41377/1/ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/41377/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/41377/; https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4299
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Information on tropical Asian vertebrates has traditionally been sparse, particularly when it comes to cryptic species inhabiting the dense forests of the region. Vertebrate populations are declining globally due to land-use change and hunting, the latter frequently referred as “defaunation.” This i...