Effects of Tagging and Location Error in Wildlife Radiotelemetry Studies

摘要: Publisher Summary Important benefits of radio tagging animals are the accuracy, precision, and completeness resulting observations. Accurate inference in radiotelemetry depends on unbiased Remotely gathered location estimates differ precision accuracy from visual Moreover, behavior is influenced by act or tracking. A fundamental assumption wildlife studies reliant that radio-tagged “moving through environment, responding to stimuli, behaving a manner similar noninstrumented animals.” This chapter summarizes effects transmitters wildlife, makes recommendations for studying minimizing effects, investigates magnitude implications error conventional transmitters. It also discusses importance conducting site-specific beacon tests better understand bias specific studies. The encourages all researchers using conduct two before beginning with collection data actual study subjects. First, transmitter method attachment species must be studied. Second, if animal locations estimated remotely, thorough field site under expected conditions conducted. goal produce spatially explicit map tracking area quantify telemetry system.