Using unmanned aerial vehicles with thermal-image acquisition cameras for animal surveys:a case study on the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey in the Qinling Mountains

作     者：Gang HE Haitao YANG Ruliang PAN Yewen SUN Pengbin ZHENG Jinghua WANG Xuelin JIN Jingjie ZHANG Baoguo LI Songtao GUO 

作者机构：Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal ConservationCollege of Life SciencesNorthwest UniversityXi’anChina Shaanxi Institute of ZoologyShaanxi Academy of SciencesXi’anChina Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau BiotaNorthwest Institute of Plateau BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesXiningChina Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Ecological GenomicsXiningChina Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and GeneticsChinese Academy of SciencesKunmingChina 

出 版 物：《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第15卷第1期

页      面：79-86页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 0906[农学-兽医学] 071002[理学-动物学] 

基　　金：the Sec­ond National Survey on Terrestrial Wildlife Resourc­es in China the Key Project of Natural Science Founda­tion of China(31730104) the National Nature Science Foundation of China(31872247,31672301) the Nat­ural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province in China(2018JC-022) the National Key Program of Research and Development,Ministry of Science and Technolo­gy(2016YFC0503200) the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB 31020302) the Biodiversity Survey,Monitoring and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and En­vironment,China(2019HB2096001006) the Open­ing Foundation of the Key Laboratory of Resource Bi­ology and Biotechnology in Western China(Northwest University),Ministry of Education(ZSK2019006) 

主　　题：arboreal primates mountainous regions population size assessment thermal image unmanned aerial vehicles 

摘      要：Following significant developments in technology,alternative devices have been applied in fieldwork for ani­mal and plant ***-image acquisition cameras installed on unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)have been used in animal surveys in the *** article demonstrates an example of how UAVs can be used in high mountainous regions,presenting a case study on the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey with a detection rate of 65.19%for positive individual *** also presents a model that can prospectively predict popula­tion size for a given animal species,which is based on combined initial work using UAVs and traditional sur­veys on the ground.A great potential advantage of UAVs is significantly shortening survey procedures,particu­larly for areas with high mountains and plateaus,such as the Himalayas,the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,Hengduan Mountains,the Yunnan-Gui Plateau and Qinling Mountains in China,where carrying out a traditional survey is extremely difficult,so that species and population surveys,particularly for critically endangered animals,are largely *** lack of data has impacted the management of endangered animals as well as the formulation and amendment of conservation strategies.