Calibrating animal-borne proximity loggers

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 656-667

  Rutz, Christian ^a,b   Morrissey, Michael B ^b   Burns, Zackory T ^a   Burt, John ^c   Otis, Brian ^c   St Clair, James J H ^a,b   James, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corvus moneduloides; Animal social network; Biologging; Business card tag; Contact network; Direct and indirect encounter mapping; Encounternet; Reality mining; Transceiver tag; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MONEDULOIDES;

EID: 84937191065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12370     Document Type: Article

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