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This study finds monitoring of wildlife by volunteer-run camera traps to be a useful tool to fill in existing data gaps needed to map and critically examine the distribution of mammals, as well as raise public awareness around conservation science. The eMammal system created by the authors, uses camera-traps at landscape scale that take photos and videos by detecting motion in order to create a record of animal occurrences across various locations and dates. According to the authors, this system produces a scale of data that is sufficient to link large mammals to ecosystem processes, which are already being monitored nationally in the United States.
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