From: Leszek Karczmarski leszek@cetacea-institute.org
We are pleased to
announce a 2-part Special Issue on “Individual Identification and Photographic
Techniques in Mammalian Ecological and Behavioural Research” published recently
in Mammalian Biology. All articles are
currently freely downloadable, please see the links below:
Part 1: Methods and Concepts -- https://www.springer.com/journal/42991/updates/23466526
Part 2: Field Studies and
Applications -- https://www.springer.com/journal/42991/updates/24045190
Articles listed as “Freely Available” can be fully downloaded for a limited period of time. PDFs of Part 1 can be downloaded through the
end of April 2023, and PDFs of Part 2 through the end of June 2023. After these dates, all “Freely Available” articles will turn into Free-to-Read online, and will remain so
indefinitely.
See below for further
details:
Individual Identification and Photographic Techniques in Mammalian Ecological and Behavioural Research
Part 1: Methods and Concepts
Editors: Leszek Karczmarski, Stephen C.Y. Chan, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Scott Y.S. Chui and Elissa Z. Cameron
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PREFACE
1. Individual identification and photographic techniques in mammalian ecological and behavioural research — Part 1: Methods and concepts
Authors: Leszek Karczmarski, Stephen C. Y. Chan, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Scott Y. S. Chui and Elissa Z. Cameron
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Theme I - ANALYTICAL INNOVATIONS
2. Assessing social structure: a data-driven approach to define associations between individuals
Authors: Sara B. Tavares, Hal Whitehead and Thomas Doniol-Valcroze
3. Preserving identity in capture–mark–recapture studies: increasing the accuracy of minimum number alive (MNA) estimates by incorporating inter-census trapping efficiency variation
Authors: Julius G. Bright Ross, Chris Newman, Christina D. Buesching and David W. Macdonald
4. spaceNtime: an R package for estimating abundance of unmarked animals using camera-trap photographs
Authors: Anna K. Moeller and Paul M. Lukacs
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Theme II - NOVEL FIELD TECHNIQUES
5. A novel technique for aging male African elephants (Loxodonta africana) using craniofacial photogrammetry and geometric morphometrics
Authors: Caitlin E. O’Connell-Rodwell, Patrick T. Freeman, Colleen Kinzley, Monica N. Sandri, Jodie L. Berezin, Maggie Wiśniewska, Kelsey Jessup and Timothy C. Rodwell
6. Automated, high-throughput image calibration for parallel-laser photogrammetry
Authors: Jack L. Richardson, Emily J. Levy, Riddhi Ranjithkumar, Huichun Yang, Eric Monson, Arthur Cronin, Jordi Galbany, Martha M. Robbins, Susan C. Alberts, Mark E. Reeves and Shannon C. McFarlin
7. A photogrammetric method to estimate total length of the largest mammal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Authors: Christian D. Ortega-Ortiz, Ricardo M. Mata Cruz, Tim Gerrodette and Diane Gendron
8. Everyone matters: identification with facial wrinkles allows more accurate inference of elephant social dynamics
Authors: Scott Y.S. Chui and Leszek Karczmarski
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Theme III - INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS
9. The potential for acoustic individual identification in mammals
Authors: Pavel Linhart, Mathieu Mahamoud-Issa, Dan Stowell and Daniel T. Blumstein
10. Predicting the individual identity of non-invasive faecal and hair samples using biotelemetry clusters
Authors: Levi Newediuk and Eric Vander Wal
11. Evaluating likelihood-based photogrammetry for individual recognition of four species of northern ungulates
Authors: Isobel F. G. Ness, Thomas S. Jung and Fiona K. A. Schmiegelow
12. Evaluating the use of thermal imagery to count harbor seals in aerial surveys
Authors: Cynthia L. Christman, Josh M. London, Paul B. Conn, Stacie K. Hardy, Gavin M. Brady, Shawn P. Dahle, Benjamin X. Hou and Heather L. Ziel
13. Multi-regional comparison of scarring and pigmentation patterns in Cuvier’s beaked whales
Authors: Frazer G. Coomber, Erin A. Falcone, Erin L. Keene, Gustavo Cardenas-Hinojosa, Rodrigo Huerta-Patino and Massimiliano Rosso
14. Assessing male gelada chest patches: color measurement and physiological mechanisms
Authors: Patricia M. DeLacey, Rachel F. Perlman, Sharmi Sen, India Schneider-Crease, Kenneth L. Chiou, Alemayehu Lemma, Ferehiwot Ayele, James P. Higham, Amy Lu, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Jacinta C. Beehner and Thore J. Bergman
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Theme IV - PHOTOGRAPHIC AND IDENTIFICATION PROTOCOL
15. Drone-based photogrammetry assessments of body size and body condition of Antillean manatees
Authors: Eric Angel Ramos, Sarah Landeo-Yauri, Nataly Castelblanco-Martinez, Maria Renee Arreola, Adam H. Quade and Guillaume Rieucau
16. Effect of matching uncertainty on population parameter estimation in mark-recapture analysis of photo-identification data
Authors: Erin Ashe and Philip S. Hammond
17. Bat selfies: photographic surveys of flying bats
Authors: Jens Rydell, Danilo Russo, Price Sewell, Ernest C. J. Seamark, Charles M. Francis, Sherri L. Fenton and M. Brock Fenton
18. Adapting photo-identification methods to study poorly marked cetaceans: a case study for common dolphins and harbor porpoises
Authors: Cindy R. Elliser, Krista van der Linde and Katrina MacIver
19. Species identification of morphologically similar tropical dolphins and estimating group size using aerial imagery in coastal waters
Authors: Holly C. Raudino, Christophe Cleguer, Melanie A. Hamel, Michael Swaine and Kelly A. Waples
20. A method for marking individual animals in motion-triggered camera studies
Authors: Yasmine N. Majchrzak, Allyson K. Menzies, Darcy Doran-Myers, Michael J. L. Peers, Emily K. Studd, Rudy Boonstra and Stan Boutin
21. Using camera traps to study hyenas: challenges, opportunities, and outlook
Authors: Arjun Dheer, Dinal Samarasinghe, Stephanie M. Dloniak and Alexander Braczkowski
22. Individual identification of armadillos (Mammalia, Cingulata) using a photo-identification software
Authors: Jorge A. Gallo, Agustin M. Abba and Mariella Superina
23. Identifying individual ungulates from fecal DNA: a comparison of field collection methods to maximize efficiency, ease, and success
Authors: Bryan H. Bach, Ashling B. Quigley, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Alex McInturff, Kristin L. Charles, Janelle Dorcy and Justin S. Brashares
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Theme V - AUTOMATED INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION
24. Pre-trained models are not enough: active and lifelong learning is important for long-term visual monitoring of mammals in biodiversity research — Individual identification and attribute prediction with image features from deep neural networks and decoupled decision models applied to elephants and great apes
Authors: Paul Bodesheim, Jan Blunk, Matthias Korschens, Clemens-Alexander Brust, Christoph Kading and Joachim Denzler
25. Similarity learning networks for animal individual re-identification: an ecological perspective
Authors: Stefan Schneider, Graham W. Taylor and Stefan C. Kremer
26. Advanced image recognition: a fully automated, high-accuracy photo-identification matching system for humpback whales
Authors: Ted Cheeseman, Ken Southerland, Jinmo Park, Marilia Olio, Kiirsten Flynn, John Calambokidis, Lindsey Jones, Claire Garrigue, Astrid Frisch Jordan, Addison Howard, Walter Reade, Janet Neilson, Christine Gabriele and Phil Clapham
27. Feasibility of using convolutional neural networks for individual-identification of wild Asian elephants
Authors: Elgiriyage M. K. de Silva, Prabhash Kumarasinghe, Kottahachchi K. D. A. K. Indrajith, Tennekoon V. Pushpakumara, Ranapura D. Y. Vimukthi, Kasun de Zoysa, Kasun Gunawardana and Shermin de Silva
28. Multispecies facial detection for individual identification of wildlife: a case study across ursids
Authors: Melanie Clapham, Ed Miller, Mary Nguyen and Russell C. Van Horn
29. Matching individual Ladoga ringed seals across short-term image sequences
Authors: Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Ilia Chelak, Andrei Lushpanov, Tuomas Eerola, Heikki Kälviäinen and Olga Chirkova
30. Assessing the performance of open-source, semi-automated pattern recognition software for harbour seal (P. v. vitulina) photo ID
Authors: Izzy Langley, Emily Hague and Monica Arso Civil
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Theme VI - DATA INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT
31. A simple tool for linking photo-identification with multimedia data to track mammal behaviour
Authors: Alexandre M. S. Machado and Mauricio Cantor
32. catRlog: a photo-identification project management system based in R
Authors: Eric M. Keen, Julia Wren, Eadin O’Mahony and Janie Wray
33. Flukebook: an open-source AI platform for cetacean photo identification
Authors: Drew Blount, Shane Gero, Jon Van Oast, Jason Parham, Colin Kingen, Ben Scheiner, Tanya Stere, Mark Fisher, Gianna Minton, Christin Khan, Violaine Dulau, Jaime Thompson, Olga Moskvyak, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Charles V. Stewart, Jason Holmberg and J. Jacob Levenson
34. Artificial intelligence for right whale photo identification: from data science competition to worldwide collaboration
Authors: Christin Khan, Drew Blount, Jason Parham, Jason Holmberg, Philip Hamilton, Claire Charlton, Fredrik Christiansen, David Johnston, Will Rayment, Steve Dawson, Els Vermeulen, Victoria Rowntree, Karina Groch, J. Jacob Levenson and Robert Bogucki
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Part 2: Field Studies and Applications
Editors: Leszek Karczmarski, Stephen C.Y. Chan, Scott Y.S. Chui and Elissa Z. Cameron
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PREFACE
1. Individual identification and photographic techniques in mammalian ecological and behavioural research — Part 2: Field studies and applications
Authors: Leszek Karczmarski, Stephen C.Y. Chan, Scott Y.S. Chui and Elissa Z. Cameron
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Theme I - REVIEW
2. Using spot pattern recognition to examine population biology, evolutionary ecology, sociality, and movements of giraffes: a 70-year retrospective
Authors: Derek E. Lee, George G. Lohay, Douglas R. Cavener and Monica L. Bond
3. Manatee population traits elucidated through photo-identification
Author: Cathy A. Beck
4. The value of individual identification in studies of free-living hyenas and aardwolves
Authors: Olivia Sage Brandon Spagnuolo, Marie Lemerle, Kay Ellen Holekamp and Ingrid Wiesel
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Theme II - DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION ECOLOGY
5. Sharp decline in humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) survival and reproductive success in southeastern Alaska during and after the 2014–2016 Northeast Pacific marine heatwave
Authors: Christine M. Gabriele, Courtney L. Amundson, Janet L. Neilson, Janice M. Straley, C. Scott Baker and Seth L. Danielson
6. Investigating local population dynamics of bottlenose dolphins in the northern Bahamas and the impact of hurricanes on survival
Authors: Jennifer Coxon, Monica Arso Civil, Diane Claridge, Charlotte Dunn and Philip S. Hammond
7. An unknown component of a well-known population: Socio-demographic parameters of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) at the western reaches of the Pearl River Delta region
Authors: Stephen C.Y. Chan, Leszek Karczmarski, Wenzhi Lin, Ruiqiang Zheng, Yuen-Wa Ho, Lang Guo, Yaqian Mo, Andy T. L. Lee, Carmen K. M. Or and Yuping Wu
8. Population density estimate of leopards (Panthera pardus) in north-western Mpumalanga, South Africa, determined using spatially explicit capture–recapture methods
Authors: Declan R. Morris, Wayne S. J. Boardman, Lourens H. Swanepoel, Greg Simpson, Jannie Coetzee, Gerrie J. Camacho and Todd J. McWhorter
9. Leopard Panthera pardus camera trap surveys in the arid environments of northern Namibia
Authors: Ruben Portas, Bettina Wachter, Piet Beytell, Kenneth H. Uiseb, Joerg Melzheimer and Sarah Edwards
10. Spatially explicit population estimates of African leopards and spotted hyenas in the Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area of southwestern Uganda
Authors: Alexander Braczkowski, Arjun M. Gopalaswamy, Julien Fattebert, Sam Isoke, Alexander Bezzina and Martine Maron
11. The relative role of intrinsic and extrinsic drivers in regulating population change and survival of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus)
Authors: David G. Marneweck, Dave J. Druce, Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt, Elizabeth le Roux and Michael J. Somers
12. Estimating population parameters of African elephants: a photographic mark-recapture application in a South African protected area
Authors: Stephen C.Y. Chan, Scott Y.S. Chui, Yolanda Pretorius and Leszek Karczmarski
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Theme III - SOCIO-ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR
13. Social responses to the natural loss of individuals in Barbary macaques
Authors: Piotr Fedurek, Richard McFarland, Bonaventura Majolo and Julia Lehmann
14. Assessment of social mixing and spatial overlap as a pathway for disease transmission in a northeast Florida estuarine dolphin community
Authors: Emily A. Szott, Kristin Brightwell and Quincy Gibson
15. Evidence of male alliance formation in a small dolphin community
Authors: Delphine B. H. Chabanne, Michael Krutzen, Hugh Finn and Simon J. Allen
16. Social integration of translocated wildlife: a case study of rehabilitated and released elephant calves in northern Kenya
Authors: Shifra Z. Goldenberg, Stephen M. Chege, Nelson Mwangi, Ian Craig, David Daballen, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Nadine Lamberski, Moses Lenaipa, Reuben Lendira, Colman Lesowapir, Lekilia P. Lokooria, Mathew Mutinda, Fred Omengo, Katie Rowe, Jenna Stacy-Dawes, George Wittemyer and Megan A. Owen
17. Dynamics of short-finned pilot whales long-term social structure in Madeira
Authors: Ruth Esteban, Philippe Verborgh and Luis Freitas
18. Adolescence and the development of social behaviour in giraffes
Authors: Zoe Muller, Innes C. Cuthill and Stephen Harris
19. Cheetah marking sites are also used by other species for communication: evidence from photographic data in a comparative setup
Authors: Sarah Edwards, Rebekka Mueller, Ralf Roeder, Joerg Melzheimer and Bettina Wachter
20. Assessing neophobia and exploration while accounting for social context: an example application in scimitar-horned oryx
Authors: Katherine Mertes, Catherine A. Ressijac, Rosana N. Moraes, Lacey F. Hughey, Luisa H. Porto Alegre, Megan Horning, Tara Buk, Arielle Harwood, Lawrence Layman, Christopher Mathews, Morgan Vance, Dolores Reed, Jared A. Stabach and Shifra Z. Goldenberg
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Theme IV - SOCIO- AND MORPHO-GENETICS
21. Association patterns and community structure among female bottlenose dolphins: environmental, genetic and cultural factors
Authors: Svenja M. Marfurt, Simon J. Allen, Manuela R. Bizzozzero, Erik P. Willems, Stephanie L. King, Richard C. Connor, Anna M. Kopps, Sonja Wild, Livia Gerber, Samuel Wittwer and Michael Krutzen
22. Genetic identifications challenge our assumptions of physical development and mother–calf associations and separation times: a case study of the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
Authors: Philip K. Hamilton, Brenna A. Frasier, Lisa A. Conger, R. Clay George, Katharine A. Jackson and Timothy R. Frasier
23. Like mother like daughter: quantifying the relationship between relatedness and phenotypic similarity in leopard pelage patterns
Authors: Lucy K. Smyth, Guy A. Balme, Ross Tyzack-Pitman, Jacqueline M. Bishop and M. Justin O’Riain
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Theme V - MOVEMENT AND SITE FIDELITY
24. Proposing a framework for monitoring demographic parameters in local cetacean populations: the case of short-finned pilot whales in Madeira
Authors: Philippe Verborgh, Elza H. Janssen, Ruth Esteban, Pauline Gauffier and Luis Freitas
25. Movements and residency of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the California Current System
Authors: Erin A. Falcone, Erin L. Keene, Eric M. Keen, Jay Barlow, James Stewart, Ted Cheeseman, Craig Hayslip and Daniel M. Palacios
26. From the Antarctic Peninsula to eastern Australia: the longest migration of a humpback whale through the South Pacific Ocean
Authors: Jorge Acevedo, Anelio Aguayo-Lobo, Peta Beeman, Ted Cheeseman and Carlos Olavarria
27. The longest recorded movement of an inshore common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
Authors: Tilen Genov, Jure Zeleznik, Chiara Bruno, Davide Ascheri, Elena Fontanesi and Monica Francesca Blasi
28. Extreme moulting site fidelity of the Saimaa ringed seal
Authors: Vincent Biard, Milaja Nykanen, Marja Niemi and Mervi Kunnasranta
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Theme VI - PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND MORPHOMETRICS
29. Growth trajectories of wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) determined from parallel laser photogrammetry
Authors: Simone Anza, Andreas Berghanel, Julia Ostner and Oliver Schulke
30. Body length and growth pattern of free-ranging Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins off Mikura Island estimated using an underwater 3D camera
Authors: Tadamichi Morisaka, Mai Sakai, Hiromitsu Hama and Kazunobu Kogi
31. Morphometrics and body condition of southern right whales on the calving grounds at Port Ross, Auckland Islands
Authors: David R. Johnston, William Rayment and Stephen M. Dawson
32. Whisker spots on polar bears reveal increasing fluctuating asymmetry
Authors: Caila E. Kucheravy, Jane M. Waterman and James D. Roth
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Theme VII - HEALTH ASSESSMENT
33. Cutaneous conditions and injuries in Ziphius cavirostris and Mesoplodon peruvianus from Mexican Pacific and Southern California waters
Authors: Mario A. Onofre-Diaz, Christian D. Ortega-Ortiz, Gustavo Cardenas-Hinojosa, Rodrigo Huerta-Patino, Erin Falcone, Jennifer S. Trickey, Koen Van Waerebeek and Marie-Francoise Van Bressem
34. Prevalence and spatio-temporal variation of epidermal conditions, deformities and injuries in common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Welsh waters
Authors: Anastasios Stylos, Eleni Akritopoulou, Chiara G. Bertulli, Katrin Lohrengel, Niall McGinty, Dimitrios K. Moutopoulos and Peter G. H. Evans
35. Health conditions of Guiana dolphins facing cumulative anthropogenic impacts
Authors: Estela Dibo Soares, Mauricio Cantor, Ana Paula Frederico Rodrigues Loureiro Bracarense, Katia Regina Groch and Camila Domit
36. Remote and non-invasive quantification of ‘Tattoo Skin Disease-Like’ dermatopathy in endangered Arabian Sea humpback whales using drone photography
Authors: Matthew S. Leslie, Louis Kant, Colin Perkins-Taylor, Marie-Francoise Van Bressem, Gianna Minton, Darryl MacDonald, Fredrik Christiansen, Maia Sarrouf Willson, Tim Collins, Robert Baldwin, Suaad Al Harthi and Andrew Willson
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EDITORIAL
37. Application of multi-species photo-ID database management systems: a user’s perspective
Authors: Stephen C.Y. Chan, Scott Y.S. Chui and Leszek Karczmarski