Emily K. Madsen

University of Oxford | OX · Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU)

Large wildlife image collections from camera traps are crucial for biodiversity monitoring, offering insights into species richness, occupancy, and activity patterns. However, manual processing of these data is time-consuming, hindering analytical processes. To address this, deep neural networks have been widely adopted to automate image analysis....

Download PDF here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1i5n%7E1R%7EeSml2 The establishment of protected areas and buffer zones has been widely adopted in many countries to mitigate biodiversity loss. However, in contrast to the growing evidence about the beneficial impacts of protected areas, ecological outcomes of buffer zones have rarely been measure...

Understanding habitat preferences and distribution of threatened species is a cornerstone of conservation, however many of the techniques available can be resource intensive. One cost-effective method is by collecting information on species presence and absence from people who regularly interact with the area of interest, also known as Local Ecolog...

Protected areas are the basis for many conservation plans for wildlife. However, they are rarely of an adequate size for the long term survival of populations of large, wide-roaming mammals. In the Maasai Mara, Kenya, communally owned wildlife conservancies have been developed to expand the area available for wildlife. As these continue to develop...

Intraspecific interactions between individuals or groups of individuals of the same species are an important component of population dynamics. Interactions can be static, such as spatial overlap, or dynamic based on the interactions of movements, and can be mediated through communication, such as the deployment of scent marks. Interactions and thei...

Animation of the simultaneous movement of individuals M01, M02, M03 and M04. (MOV)

Animation of the simultaneous movement of individuals M01 and M03 which resulted in the mortality of M01. (MOV)

Summaries for each dyad of the distance to the encounter location, distance travelled and tortuosity before and after a possible encounters with proximity threshold of <2000m. (PDF)

Across the globe, wildlife populations and their behaviours are negatively impacted by people. Protected areas are believed to be an antidote to increasing human pressures but even they are not immune to the impact of anthropogenic activities. Areas that have been set aside for the protection of wildlife therefore warrant more attention when invest...