Proximity data-loggers increase the quantity and quality of social network data

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 917-920

  Ryder, Thomas B ^a   Horton, Brent M ^b   Van Den Tillaart, Mike ^c   De Dios Morales, Juan ^d   Moore, Ignacio T ^e  

^a Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lotek Wireless   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO   (Ecuador)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coded nanotag; Proximity data loggers; Social networks

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; DATA QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; PASSERINE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84869764635     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0536     Document Type: Article

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