Scientist at Work: More Animals Found in Urban Forests


Joseph Chase setting up a camera trap.
Photo Credit: Roland Kays

By Roland Kays: "We found higher diversity and overall higher activity of animals in our camera traps set in urban forests than in those out in the wild areas. The objective of this study was to compare the potential prey communities that fishers might encounter in these two environments. Could fishers be lured into these areas by abundant prey? Now we know that, yes, this could be part of the explanation (i.e. hypothesis not rejected).

This part of our project was headed up by Joseph Chase, a student from Tech Valley High School. He came to us offering one month of work to meet his school’s requirement of “project-based learning.” This was good timing, as we were just about to start our camera trap survey."

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 2/12/2011 2:00 PM
Categories: Wildlife
Tags: camera traps urban forests wildlife prey communities fishers
 

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