Reassessing the success of experts and nonexperts at correctly differentiating between closely related species from camera trap images: A reply to Gooliaff and Hodges

We present a reply to a recent article in Ecology and Evolution (“Measuring agreement among experts in classifying camera images of similar species” by Gooliaff and Hodges) that demonstrated a lack of consistency in expert‐based classification of images of similar‐looking species. We disagree with s...

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Autores principales: Thornton, Daniel H., King, Travis W., Scully, Arthur, Murray, Dennis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Editorials
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31236211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5255
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author Thornton, Daniel H.
King, Travis W.
Scully, Arthur
Murray, Dennis
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description We present a reply to a recent article in Ecology and Evolution (“Measuring agreement among experts in classifying camera images of similar species” by Gooliaff and Hodges) that demonstrated a lack of consistency in expert‐based classification of images of similar‐looking species. We disagree with several conclusions from the study, and show that with some training, and use of multiple images that is becoming standard practice in camera‐trapping studies, even nonexperts can identify similar sympatric species with high consistency.[Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-65802972019-06-24 Reassessing the success of experts and nonexperts at correctly differentiating between closely related species from camera trap images: A reply to Gooliaff and Hodges Thornton, Daniel H. King, Travis W. Scully, Arthur Murray, Dennis Ecol Evol Editorials We present a reply to a recent article in Ecology and Evolution (“Measuring agreement among experts in classifying camera images of similar species” by Gooliaff and Hodges) that demonstrated a lack of consistency in expert‐based classification of images of similar‐looking species. We disagree with several conclusions from the study, and show that with some training, and use of multiple images that is becoming standard practice in camera‐trapping studies, even nonexperts can identify similar sympatric species with high consistency.[Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6580297/ /pubmed/31236211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5255 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Thornton, Daniel H.
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Reassessing the success of experts and nonexperts at correctly differentiating between closely related species from camera trap images: A reply to Gooliaff and Hodges
title Reassessing the success of experts and nonexperts at correctly differentiating between closely related species from camera trap images: A reply to Gooliaff and Hodges
title_full Reassessing the success of experts and nonexperts at correctly differentiating between closely related species from camera trap images: A reply to Gooliaff and Hodges
title_fullStr Reassessing the success of experts and nonexperts at correctly differentiating between closely related species from camera trap images: A reply to Gooliaff and Hodges
title_full_unstemmed Reassessing the success of experts and nonexperts at correctly differentiating between closely related species from camera trap images: A reply to Gooliaff and Hodges
title_short Reassessing the success of experts and nonexperts at correctly differentiating between closely related species from camera trap images: A reply to Gooliaff and Hodges
title_sort reassessing the success of experts and nonexperts at correctly differentiating between closely related species from camera trap images: a reply to gooliaff and hodges
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31236211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5255
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