Yorick LieftingWageningen University & Research | WUR · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Group
Yorick Liefting
Bachelor of Science
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Introduction
As research technician I experiment with new (sensor) technology, develop tools for ecological research, coordinate data collection, manage data and support research and education.
I focus on studying wildlife using motion-sensitive cameras (camera trapping) and manage Agouti, a web-based facility for standardized processing and archiving of 'vouchered' scientific observations.
I provide support to a variety of ecological research disciplines, using my background in sensor technology, GIS, remote sensing, GPS, web development and IT infrastructures, as well as extensive fieldwork experience.
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Publications (16)
Despite the popularity of the ‘landscape of fear’ concept, the potential for integration of this idea into terrain management for wildlife conservation has remained largely unexplored. We carried out a multi-year experimental study in the tiger-dense Bardia National Park, Nepal. Using plots of varying mowing frequency (0–4 times), size (small: 49 m...
Camera traps (CT) provide an easy and non‐invasive way to study wildlife. It is also possible to estimate densities if accurate protocols are followed in a standardised way and additional parameters are estimated. However, the processing and storage of the thousands of images that a typical CT study generates has become a major challenge for CT use...
In areas where farmland borders protected areas, wildlife may be attracted to crops and cause substantial financial damage for farmers. Elephants, in particular, can destroy a year's harvest in a single night, and can also cause damage to buildings and other farm structures. Few studies have examined whether damage caused by wild elephants increase...
Het gebruik van wildcamera’s als onderzoeksmethode heeft in de ecologische
wereld de laatste tien jaar een vlucht genomen. Vaak worden daarbij geurstoffen
gebruikt om doelsoorten voor de camera
te krijgen. Over het gebruik en effectiviteit van deze geurstoffen is nog veel
onbekend. Toch zien veel onderzoekers
visolie als een van de meest effectieve...
Background:
Arboviruses are a growing public health concern in Europe, with both endemic and exotic arboviruses expected to spread further into novel areas in the next decades. Predicting where future outbreaks will occur is a major challenge, particularly for regions where these arboviruses are not endemic. Spatial modelling of ecological risk fa...
Camera traps placed in the field, photograph warm-bodied animals that pass in front of an infrared sensor. The imagery represents a rich source of data on mammals larger than ~200 grams, providing information at the level of species and communities. Camera-trap surveys generate observations of specific mammals at a certain location and time, includ...
Camera traps placed in the field, photograph warm-bodied animals that pass in front of an infrared sensor. The imagery represents a rich source of data on mammals larger than ~200 grams, providing information at the level of species and communities. Camera-trap surveys generate observations of specific mammals at a certain location and time, includ...
Ticks are obligatory parasites with complex life cycles that often depend on larger bodied vertebrates as final hosts. These traits make them particularly sensitive to local coextinction with their host. Loss of wildlife abundance and diversity should thus lead to loss of tick abundance and diversity to the point where only generalist tick species...
Asian elephants around Bardiya National Park (lowland Nepal) regularly raid crops in the park’s buffer zone and occasionally kill people. Retaliatory killing has been absent till now but emotions run high, and people requested a fence or a concrete wall. We designed an electric fence that allows people and livestock to pass freely but stops elephan...
Het 5400 ha grote Nationale Park De Hoge Veluwe is al bijna 100 jaar omgeven met een grofwildraster. In 2013 is dit raster open gemaakt voor wilde hoefdieren, als uitwerking van het streven naar ontsnippering van de Veluwe door de Provincie Gelderland. Hier beschrijven we een monitoringsprogramma, waarmee we de gevolgen voor wilde hoefdieren en het...
Striped Hog-nosed Skunk Conepatus semistriatus was camera-trapped in central Panama. The photographs, taken in a densely forested area, probably belong to a single, wandering, individual. These photographs represent the easternmost record of C. semistriatus in Central America and confirm an earlier, unvouchered, report that its distribution in Pana...
From January 2010 to December 2011, a total of 138 cases of ticks feeding on humans were reported from 11 locations in central Panama. Five of these locations were situated in forest environments, three in rural landscapes and three in urban areas. The ticks were submitted to the Gorgas Memorial Institute, where nine species were identified among 6...
The ability to swim has been well documented in many species of the order Xenarthra but the literature implies that wild Tamandua anteaters avoid the water. On 26 January 2010, while driving a boat across the Panama Canal (9°10’40”N, 79°50’01”W), the authors witnessed an adult T. mexicana swimming 120 offshore, in a straight line towards Barro Colo...
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Projects (3)
At Hoge Veluwe National Park in the Netherlands an unique wildlife monitoring system consisting of a network of camera traps is continuously measuring the activity of wildlife. The network produces millions of photos each year, which are processed with help of the public. With this data we can address questions such as: How do animals make use of the different habitat types, such as heathland, game pastures and forest? How does the presence of the animals affect plants? When are the animals most active? How do they respond to recreation?
