The need for speed: Testing acceleration for estimating animal travel rates in terrestrial dead-reckoning systems

Zoology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-64

  Bidder, Owen R ^a   Soresina, Marion ^a   Shepard, Emily L C ^a   Halsey, Lewis G ^b   Quintana, Flavio ^c,d   Gómez Laich, Agustina ^c   Wilson, Rory P ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; Overall dynamic body acceleration; Telemetry; Terrestrial locomotion; Track tortuosity

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELEMETRY;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84856225887     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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