Evaluating camera traps as an alternative to live trapping for estimating the density of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) and red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)

Agriculture & Biology

• Tamiasciurus hudsonicus 100%
• Lepus americanus 96%
• squirrels 78%
• camera trapping 77%
• cameras 65%
• trapping 63%
• traps 55%
• population density 34%
• small mammals 28%
• duration 16%
• hares 16%
• boreal forests 15%
• labor 11%
• monitoring 8%
• methodology 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• trapping 61%
• population density 20%
• small mammal 17%
• rate 9%
• detection 8%
• boreal forest 7%
• labor 6%
• video 6%
• North America 5%
• effect 1%
• method 1%