Animal ecology meets GPS-based radiotelemetry: A perfect storm of opportunities and challenges

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1550, 2010, Pages 2157-2162

  Cagnacci, Francesca ^a   Boitani, Luigi ^b   Powell, Roger A ^c   Boyce, Mark S ^d  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Autocorrelation; Biotelemetry; Fitness; Global positioning system technology; Mechanistic models

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOTELEMETRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; DISPERSAL; FAUNISTICS; FITNESS; GPS; HOME RANGE; MAPPING METHOD; META-ANALYSIS; MONITORING; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIOTELEMETRY; RESOURCE USE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955179377     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0107     Document Type: Article

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