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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"GPS telemetry"”.
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Space Use and Survival of White-Tailed Deer in a Disturbance-Driven System Containing a Restored Apex Predator
… use, behavior, and survival of deer, I analyzed GPS telemetry and camera trap data, highlighting the factors influencing deer space use across hydrological and biological seasons, and connected behavioral data captured on camera traps to female deer survival. Space use is primarily a function of …
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Leopard population dynamics, trophy hunting and conservation in the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa
… to combine capture-recapture camera trapping, GPS telemetry and dietary analysis with anthropological techniques such as participant observation and semi-structured interviews in order to investigate leopard population density and dynamics, human-leopard conflict and the potential and …
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Behavioural Ecology in Conservation Planning: Individual and Sex-Specific Insights from Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Western Canada
… Leveraging a long-term (2000 – 2025) broad-scale GPS telemetry dataset from over 1000 individuals across multiple pre-defined population units and recognized conservation units in British Columbia, I evaluated how variation in movement and habitat selection patterns may reveal ecologically …
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The diet and foraging ecology of chick-rearing gannets on the Namibian islands in relation to environmental features : a study using telemetry
GPS telemetry in conjunction with a recent diet time series and historical dietary informationwas used in this study to obtain novel insight into the dietary trends and feeding ecology of Cape gannets Morus capensis on the Namibian islands. particularly Ichaboe and Mercury. The gannet diet has …
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Determining Impacts of Mountain Lions on Bighorn Sheep and Other Prey Sources in the Black Hills
… South Dakota. We used Global Positioning System (GPS) telemetry to locate 1,506 cougar feeding events and found deer (Odocoileus spp.; 83%), primarily white-tailed deer (O. virginianus), dominated cougar diets. Overall ungulate kill rate averaged 0.79 ungulates/week (range = 0.13–1.75 …
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Territoriality and Scent Marking Behavior of African Wild Dogs in Northern Botswana
… wild dogs were territorial, I used VHF and GPS telemetry and direct observations. Wild dogs in northern Botswana exhibited territorial behavior where many territories overlapped with neighbors, however packs avoided being in overlap areas simultaneously. Wild dogs avoid conspecific contact, …
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Territoriality and Scent Marking Behavior of African Wild Dogs in Northern Botswana
… wild dogs were territorial, I used VHF and GPS telemetry and direct observations. Wild dogs in northern Botswana exhibited territorial behavior where many territories overlapped with neighbors, however packs avoided being in overlap areas simultaneously. Wild dogs avoid conspecific contact, …
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Ecological genomics and conservation of caribou in Western North America
… seasonal movements and habitat selection using GPS telemetry, and morphological information gathered at capture. Some of the genes under selection in my study were linked to morphological characteristics, migratory behavior, habitat selection and climatic and environmental factors. These …
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Migratory Behavior and Survival of Adult Female Elk in a Partially Migratory Population
… migratory behavior using a ten-year VHF and GPS telemetry dataset of 223 adult female elk (Cervus elaphus) in the declining Ya Ha Tinda partially migratory population in west-central Alberta, Canada. We used measures of net squared displacement (NSD) from the winter range, plotted over time …
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Migratory Behavior and Survival of Adult Female Elk in a Partially Migratory Population
… migratory behavior using a ten-year VHF and GPS telemetry dataset of 223 adult female elk (Cervus elaphus) in the declining Ya Ha Tinda partially migratory population in west-central Alberta, Canada. We used measures of net squared displacement (NSD) from the winter range, plotted over time …
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Spatial ecology of grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) in an urban environment
… of 10 individual grey squirrels, tracked using GPS telemetry for up to<br/>five months in Aberdeen, and assessing habitat selection within these home<br/>ranges. This information is used to determine the distribution of traps required<br/>to put each individual of the target population at risk …
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Potential collision risk of harriers Circus spp. with wind turbines during breeding season derived from GPS tracking
… risk has remained limited. In this context, GPS telemetry represents a promising but hitherto seldom applied technique. I used an extensive collection of GPS tracking data, including high-resolution flight tracks (measurement interval of 3 s), to investigate the collision risk of breeding …
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The spatial ecology and conservation of an important game bird in Ireland: the Eurasian woodcock
… the survival of non-breeding woodcock using radiotelemetry to monitor the fates and activity of 168 tagged birds across three hunted and three not hunted sites. iii. Explore whether hunting and bird age affected the use of space and movement ecology of non-breeding woodcock using global …
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Spatial Ecology of Bobcats (Lynx rufus) in the Appalachian Mountains of Western Virginia
… on bobcat ecology. I utilized data from 20 GPS collared bobcats (14M, 6F) to investigate bobcat spatial ecology in the mountains of Western Virginia. Average resident male home range size was 33.9 ± 2.6 km^2, nearly 3 times larger than average resident female home range size (12.1 ± 2.4 …
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Modelling animal movement in heterogeneous environments: from statistical inferential models to individual-based models
… of little penguins (Eudyptula minor) obtained by GPS telemetry. The modelling procedure correctly classified 92.5% of all individual location observations in the synthetic trajectories, demonstrating reasonable ability to successfully discriminate behavioural modes. Most individual little penguins …
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Malleefowl and anthropogenic change: an integrated analysis of population trends, landscape genetics and movement ecology
… evidence of female dispersal. Solar-powered GPS trackers were used to determine individual movement patterns and the effects of habitat fragmentation and environmental factors. Malleefowl movement was tightly associated with breeding status, with breeding birds staying close to the mound and …