Global positioning system and associated technologies in animal behaviour and ecological research

SM Tomkiewicz, MR Fuller… - … Transactions of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biologists can equip animals with global positioning system (GPS) technology to obtain
accurate (less than or equal to 30 m) locations that can be combined with sensor data to …

Statistical modelling of individual animal movement: an overview of key methods and a discussion of practical challenges

TA Patterson, A Parton, R Langrock… - AStA Advances in …, 2017 - Springer
With the influx of complex and detailed tracking data gathered from electronic tracking
devices, the analysis of animal movement data has recently emerged as a cottage industry …

Moderating A rgos location errors in animal tracking data

DC Douglas, R Weinzierl, S C. Davidson… - Methods in Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The A rgos S ystem is used worldwide to satellite‐track free‐ranging animals, but location
errors can range from tens of metres to hundreds of kilometres. Low‐quality locations (A …

Decadal migration phenology of a long-lived Arctic icon keeps pace with climate change

CR Shuert, M Marcoux, NE Hussey… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Animals migrate in response to seasonal environments, to reproduce, to benefit from
resource pulses, or to avoid fluctuating hazards. Although climate change is predicted to …

Using Google Location History data to quantify fine-scale human mobility

NW Ruktanonchai, CW Ruktanonchai, JR Floyd… - International journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Human mobility is fundamental to understanding global issues in the health
and social sciences such as disease spread and displacements from disasters and conflicts …

Biodiversity Research: fidelity to foraging sites, consistency of migration routes and habitat modulation of home range by sea turtles

G Schofield, VJ Hobson, S Fossette… - Diversity and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Resources can shape patterns of habitat utilization. Recently a broad foraging
dichotomy between oceanic and coastal sites has been revealed for loggerhead sea turtles …

From sensor data to animal behaviour: an oystercatcher example

J Shamoun-Baranes, R Bom, EE van Loon, BJ Ens… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Animal-borne sensors enable researchers to remotely track animals, their physiological
state and body movements. Accelerometers, for example, have been used in several studies …

New insights into pelagic migrations: implications for ecology and conservation

DP Costa, GA Breed… - Annual review of ecology …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Highly pelagic large marine vertebrates have evolved the capability of moving across large
expanses of the marine environment; some species routinely move across entire ocean …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing accuracy and utility of satellite-tracking data using Argos-linked Fastloc-GPS

MJ Witt, S Åkesson, AC Broderick, MS Coyne… - Animal …, 2010 - seaturtle.org
Since the 1980s, the Argos System operated by CLS Argos (http://www. argos-system. org)
has become a dominant system for following large-scale movements of vertebrate species in …

Home on the range: spatial ecology of loggerhead turtles in Atlantic waters of the USA

LA Hawkes, MJ Witt, AC Broderick… - Diversity and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Although satellite tracking has yielded much information regarding the migrations and
habitat use of threatened marine species, relatively little has been published about the …