Scientific paper as podcast with the help of AI
Published on: 17. February 2025
The article Trail cameras can greatly inflate nest predation rates (Henden et al. 2024) has been transformed into an exciting podcast, AI-generated with notebookLM.
Deployment of cameras on nests in Varanger. Photo: Eivind Flittie Kleiven
The article examines how the use of trail cameras can affect predation rates on bird nests in the Arctic tundra. The study shows that the cameras attracted corvids, especially ravens, resulting in artificially high predation rates. The experiment was conducted over two breeding seasons with artificial nests, and the results indicate that standard trail cameras can provide a biased and elevated predation risk. The researchers urge caution when using cameras and recommend developing smaller, better-concealed monitoring methods. They also emphasize the need to assess the potential effects of such methods on predation in each individual case.
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