Claire Moore, Julian Beaman, Marnie Brice, Karen Burke da Silva
{"title":"A case report assessing the utility of a low-cost tracking GPS device for monitoring terrestrial mammal movements","authors":"Claire Moore, Julian Beaman, Marnie Brice, Karen Burke da Silva","doi":"10.1186/s40317-023-00347-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00347-w","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background Accurate data on animal movements can highlight behavioural and ecological issues, such as territorial interactions, barriers to migration patterns, including compromised movement corridors, or avoidance of deteriorating habitats, and disease transmission, thus helping in conservation decision making. This study examines the utility of mOOvement global positioning system (GPS) tags, a low-cost cattle ear tag tracking device to monitor movements of terrestrial mammal populations in South Australia. Results Stationary tags ( n = 40) were used to test horizontal accuracy with a median location error of 33.26 m ( IQR = 16.9–59.4), and maximum recorded error of 410 m. The locational accuracy was weakly influenced by the horizontal dilution of precision (HDOP), a measure of satellite availability and geometry, and overhead canopy cover. Numerous tags produced infrequent and inconsistent readings, median of 12 records per day ( IQR = 6–12), correlating negatively with the tag’s distance from the centrally located LoRa antenna; however, some tags recorded fewer than one position per day. Conclusions We propose that the primary cause of mOOvement tag inadequacy is the use of only the GPS satellite constellation (USA, 1978), which does not provide adequate coverage in either satellite number or geometry in the sky at the − 35° latitude to calculate accurate positions regularly over 24 h, unlike the multiple constellations available in the global navigation satellite system (GNSS). We conclude that GPS tags are unsuitable for studies requiring high locational accuracy or identification of an individual’s social interactions, where the GPS constellation has a limited number of satellites available during prolonged periods. They can, however, be used to provide estimates of home range size or track large scale daily movements of animals in more equatorially located regions.","PeriodicalId":37711,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biotelemetry","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135193402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christoffer Nagel, Jan Droll, Katharina Kroemer, J. Pander, Juergen Geist
{"title":"Testing the effects of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags on survival, growth, and tag retention of common nase (Chondrostoma nasus L.) and European barbel (Barbus barbus L.)","authors":"Christoffer Nagel, Jan Droll, Katharina Kroemer, J. Pander, Juergen Geist","doi":"10.1186/s40317-023-00344-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00344-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37711,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biotelemetry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46483113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Theresa M. Kirchner, Olivier Devineau, Marianna Chimienti, Daniel P. Thompson, J. Crouse, Alina L. Evans, Barbara Zimmermann, A. Eriksen
{"title":"Predicting moose behaviors from tri-axial accelerometer data using a supervised classification algorithm","authors":"Theresa M. Kirchner, Olivier Devineau, Marianna Chimienti, Daniel P. Thompson, J. Crouse, Alina L. Evans, Barbara Zimmermann, A. Eriksen","doi":"10.1186/s40317-023-00343-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00343-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37711,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biotelemetry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43517953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Schaub, A. Millon, Caroline De Zutter, R. Buij, Joël Chadœuf, Simon Lee, Aymeric Mionnet, R. Klaassen
{"title":"How to improve the accuracy of height data from bird tracking devices? An assessment of high-frequency GPS tracking and barometric altimetry in field conditions","authors":"T. Schaub, A. Millon, Caroline De Zutter, R. Buij, Joël Chadœuf, Simon Lee, Aymeric Mionnet, R. Klaassen","doi":"10.1186/s40317-023-00342-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00342-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37711,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biotelemetry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44788874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using a drifting GPS-Argos satellite buoy as a method for detecting acoustic-tagged fish offshore in an ancient lake","authors":"M. Yoshida, Kohji Mabuchi","doi":"10.1186/s40317-023-00341-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00341-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37711,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biotelemetry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43943079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Nielsen, D. R. Bryan, Kimberly M. Rand, M. Arostegui, C. Braun, B. Galuardi, S. Mcdermott
{"title":"Geolocation of a demersal fish (Pacific cod) in a high-latitude island chain (Aleutian Islands, Alaska)","authors":"J. Nielsen, D. R. Bryan, Kimberly M. Rand, M. Arostegui, C. Braun, B. Galuardi, S. Mcdermott","doi":"10.1186/s40317-023-00340-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00340-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37711,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biotelemetry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49224566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huixin Yu, F. Muijres, Jan Severin te Lindert, A. Hedenström, P. Henningsson
{"title":"Accelerometer sampling requirements for animal behaviour classification and estimation of energy expenditure","authors":"Huixin Yu, F. Muijres, Jan Severin te Lindert, A. Hedenström, P. Henningsson","doi":"10.1186/s40317-023-00339-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00339-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37711,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biotelemetry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43952696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Abe, Ishmerai Galang, Ayu Daryani, S. Minamikawa, N. Mochioka, H. Hakoyama
{"title":"Regional differences in oceanic migratory behavior of Japanese silver eel in waters with different vertical temperature gradients","authors":"T. Abe, Ishmerai Galang, Ayu Daryani, S. Minamikawa, N. Mochioka, H. Hakoyama","doi":"10.1186/s40317-023-00338-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00338-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37711,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biotelemetry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41604176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using recovered radio transmitters to estimate positioning error and a generalized Monte Carlo simulation to incorporate error into animal telemetry analysis","authors":"K. C. Heim, W. R. Ardren, T. Castro‐Santos","doi":"10.1186/s40317-023-00337-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00337-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37711,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biotelemetry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42120949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Fielder, T. Hayden, T. Binder, B. Dorr, Heidi A. Currier
{"title":"Predator telemetry informs temporal and spatial overlap with stocked salmonids in Lake Huron","authors":"D. Fielder, T. Hayden, T. Binder, B. Dorr, Heidi A. Currier","doi":"10.1186/s40317-023-00336-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00336-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37711,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biotelemetry","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65849857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}