dc.contributor.author |
Russell, James |
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dc.contributor.author |
Hasler, N |
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dc.contributor.author |
Klette, Reinhard |
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dc.contributor.author |
Rosenhahn, B |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2011-11-07T20:51:43Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2009 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
ECOLOGY 90(7):2007-2013 Jul 2009 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0012-9658 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/8783 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The recognition of tracks plays an important role in ecological research and monitoring, and tracking tunnels are a cost-effective method for indexing species over large areas. Traditionally, tracks are collected by a tracking system and analysis is carried out in a manual identification procedure by experienced wildlife biologists. Unfortunately, human experts are unable to reliably distinguish tracks of morphologically similar species. We propose a new method using image analysis, which allows automatic species identification of tracks, and apply the method to identifying cryptic small-mammal species. We demonstrate the method by identifying footprints of three invasive rat species with similar morphology that co-occur in New Zealand, including detection of a recent invasion of a rat-free island. Automatic footprint recognition successfully identified the species of rat for .70% of footprints, and 83% of tracking cards. With appropriate changes to the image recognition, the method could be broadly applicable to any taxa that can be tracked. Identification of tracks to species level gives better estimates of species presence and composition in communities. |
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dc.language |
EN |
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dc.publisher |
Ecological Society of America |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Ecology |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0012-9658/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.subject |
automated species identification |
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dc.subject |
binarization |
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dc.subject |
index |
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dc.subject |
invasive species |
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dc.subject |
New Zealand |
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dc.subject |
rats |
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dc.subject |
Rattus exulans |
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dc.subject |
Rattus norvegicus |
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dc.subject |
Rattus rattus |
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dc.subject |
rodents |
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dc.subject |
template matching |
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dc.subject |
tracking |
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dc.subject |
SCIATIC FUNCTIONAL INDEX |
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dc.subject |
NEW-ZEALAND |
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dc.subject |
RELATIVE ABUNDANCE |
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dc.subject |
MAMMALS |
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dc.subject |
IDENTIFICATION |
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dc.subject |
POPULATIONS |
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dc.subject |
RATTUS |
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dc.subject |
RATES |
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dc.title |
Automatic Track Recognition of Footprints for Identifying Cryptic Species |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1890/08-1069.1 |
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pubs.issue |
7 |
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pubs.begin-page |
2007 |
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pubs.volume |
90 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: the Ecological Society of America |
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dc.identifier.pmid |
19694147 |
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pubs.author-url |
http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/08-1069.1 |
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pubs.end-page |
2013 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
97469 |
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pubs.org-id |
Science |
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pubs.org-id |
Biological Sciences |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
1939-9170 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2010-09-01 |
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pubs.dimensions-id |
19694147 |
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