From sensor data to animal behaviour: An oystercatcher example

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Shamoun Baranes, Judy ^a   Bom, Roeland ^a,b   van Loon, E Emiel ^a   Ens, Bruno J ^c   Oosterbeek, Kees ^c   Bouten, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; FLYING; FORAGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HABITAT USE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; OYSTERCATCHER; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SENSOR; SITTING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HAEMATOPODIDAE; HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861709898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037997     Document Type: Article

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