Terrestrial passive integrated transponder antennae for tracking small animal movements

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1245-1250

  Charney, Noah D ^a   Letcher, Benjamin H ^b   Haro, Alex ^b   Warren, Paige S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambystoma opacum; marbled salamander; Massachusetts; migration; movement; passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags; radio frequency identification (RFID); small animal; technology; tracking

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ANTENNA; BREEDING SITE; BUFFER ZONE; MIGRATION ROUTE; MOVEMENT; RADIOTELEMETRY; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRACKING;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA OPACUM; ANIMALIA; CAUDATA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 77954466072     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2008-096     Document Type: Article

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38. Castro-Santos, T., A. Haro, and S. Walk. 1996. A passive integrated transponder (PIT) tag system for monitoring fishways. Fisheries Research 28:253-261.
39. Douglas, M. E., and B. L. Monroe, Jr. 1981. A comparative study of topographical orientation in Ambystoma (Amphibia:Caudata). Copeia 1981:460-463.
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43. Germano, D. J., and D. F. Williams. 1993. Field evaluation of using passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags to permanently mark lizards. Herpetological Review 24:54-56.
44. Gibbons, J. W., and K. M. Andrews. 2004. PIT tagging:simple technology at its best. BioScience 54:447-454.
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47. Gruber, B. 2004. Measuring activity of geckos with an automatic movement monitoring system. Herpetological Review 35:245-247.
48. Harper, S. J., and G. O. Batzli. 1996. Monitoring use of runways by voles with passive integrated transponders. Journal of Mammalogy 77:364-369.
49. Jenkins, C. L., K. McGarigal, and B. C. Timm. 2006. Orientation of movements and habitat selection in a spatially structured population of marbled salamanders (Ambystoma opacum). Journal of Herpetology 40:240-248.
50. Madison, D. M. 1997. The emigration of radio-implanted spotted salamanders, Ambystoma maculatum. Journal of Herpetology 31:542-551.
51. Madison, D. M., and L. Farrand, III. 1998. Habitat use during breeding and emigration in radio-implanted tiger salamanders, Ambystoma tigrinum. Copeia 1998:402-410.
52. McDonough, C., and P. W. C. Paton. 2007. Salamander dispersal across a forested landscape fragmented by a golf course. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:1163-1169.
53. Meynecke, J. O., G. C. Poole, J. Werry, and S. Y. Lee. 2008. Use of PIT tag and underwater video recording in assessing estuarine fish movement in a high intertidal mangrove and salt marsh creek. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 79:168-178.
54. Montieth, K. E., and P. W. C. Paton. 2006. Emigration behavior of spotted salamanders on golf courses in southern Rhode Island. Journal of Herpetology 40:195-205.
55. Ott, J. A., and D. E. Scott. 1999. Effects of toe-clipping and PIT-tagging on growth and survival in metamorphic Ambystoma opacum. Journal of Herpetology 33:344-348.
56. Pellet, J., L. Rechsteiner, A. K. Skrivervik, J. F. Zürcher, and N. Perrin. 2006. Use of the harmonic direction finder to study the terrestrial habitats of the European tree frog (Hyla arborea). Amphibia-Reptilia 27:138-142.
57. Perret, N., and P. Joly. 2002. Impacts of tattooing and PIT-tagging on survival and fecundity in the alpine newt (Triturus alpestris). Herpeto-logica 58:131-138.
58. Prentice, E. F., T. A. Flagg, C. S. McCutcheon, and D. F. Brastow. 1990a. PIT-tag monitoring systems for hydroelectric dams and fish hatcheries. American Fisheries Society Symposium 7:323-334.
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60. Semlitsch, R. D. 1981. Effects of implanted tantalum-182 wire tags on the mole salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum. Copeia 1981:735-737.
61. Semlitsch, R. D. 1998. Biological delineation of terrestrial buffer zones for pond-breeding salamanders. Conservation Biology 12:1113-1119.
62. Sheppe, W. 1967. The effect of livetrapping on the movements of Peromyscus. American Midland Naturalist 78:471-480.
63. Williams, P. K. 1973. Seasonal movements and population dynamics of four sympatric mole salamanders, genus Ambystoma. Dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
64. Windmiller, B. S. 1996. The pond, the forest, and the city:spotted salamander ecology and conservation in a human-dominated landscape. Dissertation, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
65. Withey, J. C., T. D. Bloxton, and J. M. Marzluff. 2001. Effects of tagging and location error in wildlife radiotelemetry studies. Pages 43-75 in J. J. Millspaugh and J. M. Marzluff, editors. Radio tracking and animal populations. Academic Press, New York, New York, USA.
66. Zydlewski, G. B., G. Horton, T. Dubreuil, B. Letcher, S. Casey, and J. Zydlewski. 2006. Remote monitoring of fish in small streams. Fisheries 31:492-502.