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| Watching the World Change: What Wildlife Images Reveal About a Planet in Flux Sarah E.Huebner. Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, VA, USA |
Abstract
Every day, wild-living animals must make crucial decisions for survival and reproduction in rapidly changing environments. Human-induced biodiversity loss, habitat loss, and climate change have dramatically increased environmental variability, reshaping the conditions under which animals forage, migrate, and reproduce. To understand the conservation status of populations around the world, ecologists urgently need to know when and where animals are present and how they behave under these new pressures. Using camera trap images collected by national and international monitoring programs, including Snapshot Safari, a network spanning sub-Saharan Africa, we have documented unexpected behaviors, range shifts, and changes in habitat preference. With the introduction of Vision-Language models and curated image collections, we are poised to gain deeper insights into how wildlife are surviving in the Anthropocene.
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