Designing satellite tagging studies: Estimating and optimizing data recovery

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 449-461

  Patterson, Toby A ^a   Hartmann, Klaas ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies Nubeena Crescent   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Behaviour; Pop up tags; Satellite tagging; Study design

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; DATA SET; DATA TRANSMISSION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOVEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PELAGIC FISH; SAMPLING; TAGGING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80054679272     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2011.00595.x     Document Type: Article

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