Electronic tracking tag programming is critical to data collection for behavioral time-series analysis

Ecosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Breed, Greg A ^a,b   Costa, Daniel P ^a   Goebel, Michael E ^c   Robinson, Patrick W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal tracking; Argos; Geolocation; GPS; State space model; Wildlife telemetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955901864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00021.1     Document Type: Article

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