Going wild: What a global small-animal tracking system could do for experimental biologists

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-186

  Wikelski, Martin ^a   Kays, Roland W ^b   Kasdin, N Jeremy ^c   Thorup, Kasper ^d   Smith, James A ^e   Swenson Jr , George W ^f  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat; Field experiments; ICARUS initiative; Insect; Migration pattern; Migratory bird orientation; Satellite; Small animal; Songbird; Telemetry; Tracking technology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REVIEW; SPACE FLIGHT; TELEMETRY;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPACECRAFT; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PASSERI;

EID: 33847043558     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02629     Document Type: Review

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