Accounting for location uncertainty in azimuthal telemetry data improves ecological inference.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Characterizing animal space use is critical for understanding ecological relationships. Animal telemetry technology has revolutionized the fields of ecology and conservation biology by providing high quality spatial data on animal movement. Radio-telemetry with very high frequency (VHF) radio signals continues to be a useful technology because of its low cost, miniaturization, and low battery requirements. Despite a number of statistical developments synthetically integrating animal location estimation and uncertainty with spatial process models using satellite telemetry data, we are unaware of similar developments for azimuthal telemetry data. As such, there are few statistical options to handle these unique data and no synthetic framework for modeling animal location u

SUBMITTER: Gerber BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6058391 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature