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A standardised framework for analysing animal detections from automated tracking arrays
Animal Biotelemetry, Vol.6, pp.1-14
2018
Abstract
Background:
Over the past 15 years, the integration of localised passive telemetry networks into centralised data repositories has greatly enhanced our ability to monitor the presence and movements of highly mobile and migratory species. These large-scale networks are now generating big data, allowing meta-analyses across multiple species, locations, and temporal scales. Broad-scale comparisons of animal movement metrics are constrained by the use of diverse analytical techniques among researchers. Accordingly, there is a need for a tool-set to assist in calculating animal movement metrics that can be easily applied to datasets from local studies to large-scale cooperative networks.
Results:
We present a standardised framework and an associated analysis tool-set that facilitates the calculation of a range of activity space and movement metrics for passive telemetry datasets. Application of the tool-set is demonstrated using data from the Integrated Marine Observing System continental-scale network of underwater acoustic receivers. We show how the metrics can: (1) be directly compared among multiple species monitored at multiple sites; (2) be compared among multiple species tagged at a single study site; and (3) assess changes in activity space metrics over time.
Conclusions:
Establishing a framework and tool-set to analyse data from large-scale networks progresses the field of passive telemetry beyond the traditional individual-, species-, or location-centric approaches to facilitate national- or international-scale outputs that better address important questions in the field of movement ecology.
Details
- Title
- A standardised framework for analysing animal detections from automated tracking arrays
- Authors
- Vinay Udyawer (Author) - Australian Institute of Marine ScienceRoss G Dwyer (Author) - The University of QueenslandXavier Hoenner (Author) - University of TasmaniaRussell C Babcock (Author) - CSIRO Oceans and AtmosphereStephanie Brodie (Author) - UNSW AustraliaHamish A Campbell (Author) - Charles Darwin UniversityRobert G Harcourt (Author) - Macquarie UniversityCharlie Huveneers (Author) - Flinders UniversityFabrice R. A Jaine (Author) - Macquarie UniversityColin A Simpfendorfer (Author) - James Cook UniversityMatthew D Taylor (Author) - Port Stephens Fisheries InstituteMichelle R Heupel (Author) - Australian Institute of Marine Science
- Publication details
- Animal Biotelemetry, Vol.6, pp.1-14
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Date published
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.1186/s40317-018-0162-2
- ISSN
- 2050-3385
- Copyright note
- © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99613408902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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