Tracking animal movements using biomarkers in tail hairs: a novel approach for animal geolocating from sulfur isoscapes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Current animal tracking studies are most often based on the application of external geolocators such as GPS and radio transmitters. While these technologies provide detailed movement data, they are costly to acquire and maintain, which often restricts sample sizes. Furthermore, deploying external geolocators requires physically capturing and recapturing of animals, which poses an additional welfare concern. Natural biomarkers provide an alternative, non-invasive approach for addressing a range of geolocation questions and can, because of relatively low cost, be collected from many individuals thereby broadening the scope for population-wide inference.

Methods

We developed a low-cost, minimally invasive method for distinguishing between local versus non-local movem

SUBMITTER: Kabalika Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7501629 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature