Wildlife tracking technologies have already massively advanced our understanding of the natural world, from uncovering previously mysterious migration patterns and key movement corridors to demonstrating the impacts of anthropogenic pressures and climate change. Recent advances in the development of technologies for collecting and transmitting biologging data have unlocked the potential for fine-scale data collection at a near-global scale, which when integrated with remotely sensed environmental data offers an unprecedented biological lens into ecosystem health and environmental change (Jetz et al. 2022).
New technologies on the horizon include small satellites like CubeSats, which are being investigated by NASA, the ICARUS Initiative's satellite system, and a variety of other ventures aiming to improve the coverage, accuracy, and capacity of wildlife tracking data collection. Combined with the increased availability of high-resolution environmental data and analytical developments in movement modeling, these advancements are empowering movement ecologists to ask previously unanswerable or unimaginable questions. It’s clear that this discipline sits at the precipice of major breakthroughs that could revolutionize our understanding of animal movement and the natural world.
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Hi Guys, I am currently a zoology undergraduate at Queen Marys London, and was just wondering if there is much use of telemetry still... |
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Biologging | 8 years ago | |
I tweeted about it! |
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Biologging | 8 years ago | |
There's also movebank, which is a repository fo wildlife tracking information. |
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Biologging | 8 years 1 month ago | |
Hi, I am part of a student group who are researching training courses in animal movement that include remote sensing. If you’ve... |
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Biologging | 8 years 2 months ago | |
The police have tried to use New World Vultures to find dead bodies in Europe. The success was some what limited but not the fault of the birds. This does open up a whole area... |
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Biologging | 8 years 3 months ago | |
@Dave any updates on this project? |
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Biologging | 8 years 3 months ago | |
Interesting biotelemetry symposium, 22 - 24 May, in Leuven Belgium, organised by the International Society on Biotelemetry. Main topics... |
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Biologging | 8 years 4 months ago | |
This fully funded PhD position may be of interest to the community: Developing Wild Animal Tracking Systems Using Mataki... |
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Biologging | 8 years 4 months ago | |
The Journal of Animal Ecology with the Journal of Applied Ecology and Methods in Ecology and Evolution have published a... |
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Biologging | 8 years 4 months ago | |
Margaret Driciru with the Uganda Wildlife Authority is doing great work with mobile reporting tools for rapid response to... |
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Biologging | 8 years 5 months ago | |
Oh wow. This is perfect for what I do... tracking tigers by their voices alone! |
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