Distributing transmitters to maximize population-level representativeness in automated radio telemetry studies of animal movement.

ABSTRACT: Telemetry is a powerful and indispensable tool for evaluating wildlife movement and distribution patterns, particularly in systems where opportunities for direct observation are limited. However, the effort and expense required to track individuals often results in small sample sizes, which can lead to biased results if the sample of tracked individuals does not fully capture spatial, temporal, and individual variability within the target population. To better understand the influence of sampling design on results of automated radio telemetry studies, we conducted a retrospective power analysis of very high frequency (VHF) radio telemetry data from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System for two species of birds along the United States Atlantic coast: a shorebird, the piping plover (Charadrius

SUBMITTER: Lamb JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9814390 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature