The Department of Ecosystems and Conservation of the Sokoine University of Agriculture in partnership with the University of Florence, MUSE – Science museum, University of Copenhagen, University of Bayreuth, University of Dar es Salaam, and College of African Wildlife Management implementing the CONTAN project conducted field practical training on how to analyze camera‐trap data on 19th September 2022.
Camera traps are increasingly used to study wildlife ecology and inform conservation, but valid inference depends on appropriate data analysis. Camera-trap data consist of species, station and occasion-specific detections, but both accumulation curves and capture–recapture-type estimators ignore the spatial component of the data, thereby losing interesting information on how richness may vary within a study area.
Students undertaking MSc. Ecosystems Science and Management, and MSc. Forestry in the Department of Ecosystems and Conservation from the Sokoine University of Agriculture attended practical training on the analysis of field data from the camera traps at the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre. The training was based on proper techniques using R-statistical software for systematic analysis.
This training was offered under the CONTAN project. The CONTAN project is an Erasmus + Capacity-building project in the field of higher education“Developing curricula for biodiversity monitoring and conservation in Tanzania”.
Students learning data analysis from camera traps
Funding line: European Union – Erasmus+ KA2 – Capacity Building in Higher Education (call EAC-A02-2019-CBHE)
Contact Us;
Project Coordinator,
Dr. Charles Kilawe,
CONTAN project
Department of Ecosystems and Conservation,
College of Forestry Wildlife and Tourism
PO Box 3010, Chuo Kikuu, Morogoro, Tanzania
ckilawe@sua.ac.tz
+255 752 581 069
