| Title |
Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Science, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.aaa2478 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Roland Kays, Margaret C Crofoot, Walter Jetz, Martin Wikelski |
| Abstract |
Moving animals connect our world, spreading pollen, seeds, nutrients, and parasites as they go about the their daily lives. Recent integration of high-resolution Global Positioning System and other sensors into miniaturized tracking tags has dramatically improved our ability to describe animal movement. This has created opportunities and challenges that parallel big data transformations in other fields and has rapidly advanced animal ecology and physiology. New analytical approaches, combined with remotely sensed or modeled environmental information, have opened up a host of new questions on the causes of movement and its consequences for individuals, populations, and ecosystems. Simultaneous tracking of multiple animals is leading to new insights on species interactions and, scaled up, may enable distributed monitoring of both animals and our changing environment. |
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| United States | 18 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 9% |
| Germany | 6 | 6% |
| Canada | 3 | 3% |
| Spain | 2 | 2% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | 2% |
| Finland | 2 | 2% |
| South Africa | 2 | 2% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 14 | 14% |
| Unknown | 38 | 39% |
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| Members of the public | 67 | 69% |
| Scientists | 28 | 29% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 2% |
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| United States | 10 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | <1% |
| Germany | 5 | <1% |
| Canada | 5 | <1% |
| Brazil | 5 | <1% |
| Spain | 3 | <1% |
| Japan | 3 | <1% |
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 11 | <1% |
| Unknown | 1650 | 97% |
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 365 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 273 | 16% |
| Researcher | 264 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 190 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 79 | 5% |
| Other | 236 | 14% |
| Unknown | 297 | 17% |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 720 | 42% |
| Environmental Science | 328 | 19% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 44 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 43 | 3% |
| Engineering | 34 | 2% |
| Other | 164 | 10% |
| Unknown | 371 | 22% |