Biodiversity
Species occurrence and trends over time — continuous documentation of the state of nature across regions and habitats.
Example: a 5-year baseline for breeding birds and mammals in a habitat area.

Use cases
Plature is used in biodiversity monitoring, wildlife management, nature restoration and invasive-species monitoring — by municipalities, agencies, research projects and infrastructure projects across Denmark.
Species occurrence and trends over time — continuous documentation of the state of nature across regions and habitats.
Example: a 5-year baseline for breeding birds and mammals in a habitat area.
Monitoring of wolves near urban zones, invasive species and damage to game or crops, so efforts can be targeted where and when they are needed.
Example: early warning when wolves move within defined zones.
Baseline and before/after documentation of species activity in project areas, so nature restoration can be measured, not just described.
Example: documenting species development 3 years after a stream remeandering.
Fauna passages, roads, wind and solar projects: continuous nature documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
Example: monitoring a fauna passage before, during and after a motorway expansion.
Early indication of unwanted species, their spread and pace — automatic and continuous rather than sample-based.
Example: detecting raccoon dogs in new districts before the population establishes itself.
Aggregation per municipality, project area or grid — ready for analysis, comparison and reporting across management units.
Example: municipal biodiversity reports with standardised time series.
Research case
The study compares the behaviour of badgers (Meles meles) on the undisturbed island of Vorsø with the human-impacted mainland of Jutland — based on ~2,000 videos captured by wildlife cameras and classified automatically.
Camilla Beregaard Andersen & Nikolai Schlichting Nielsen — Bachelor project, June 2025
Investigate behavioural response and adaptation in badgers across human-disturbed environments.
Two contrasting habitats in Denmark: the undisturbed island of Vorsø and a human-impacted area in Jutland.
Distributed wildlife-camera deployment with automated classification of five behaviours (Foraging, Grooming, Locomotion, Social, Vigilance) across ~2,000 videos using LabGym v2.5.
Significant differences in time budgets between island and mainland (Mann–Whitney U). Island individuals showed more continuous activity and greater variation in locomotion; mainland individuals more variable social behaviour and heightened vigilance.
Badger behavioural plasticity is context-dependent. As an ecosystem engineer, preserving behavioural diversity should be part of conservation strategies.
More cases
See how Plature's wildlife cameras and AI species recognition are used in real projects: fauna passages, biodiversity monitoring and scientific research.

Motorways and expressways fragment the landscape and split populations of wild mammals into ever smaller units — one of the largest threats to Danish biodiversity. The Danish Road Directorate is building green corridors across the national road network: fauna bridges, landscape bridges and underpasses that let red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, foxes and mustelids cross the motorway safely.
Wildlife cameras document which species actually use which passage types, and how often. Combined with AI-based mapping of roadkill, this provides the basis for a defragmentation programme — placing and sizing future fauna passages where they make the biggest difference for wildlife and road safety.