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Scalable low‐cost seabed landers: the missing link for sustained, integrated, long‐term observations in dynamic shallow seas

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Seabed landers, when equipped with a range of biotic and abiotic sensors, offer a non‐invasive and cost‐effective solution for ecosystem‐scale monitoring of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) in dynamic shallow seas.
Arienne Calonge, Roeland Develter, Carlota Muñiz, Clea Parcerisas, Jan Reubens, Wieter Boone, Klaas Deneudt, Elisabeth Debusschere   +7 more
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Plugging biologging into animal welfare: An opportunity for advancing wild animal welfare science

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Animal welfare science is currently expanding beyond its traditional boundaries, from captive animals to those living in the wild. This current development is conceptually and methodologically challenging, but it could benefit from adjacent and more ...
Michaël Beaulieu, Michaela Masilkova
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A framework for the ethical use of animal‐borne devices in post‐release monitoring following rehabilitation

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Rehabilitation and release contribute to conservation efforts for threatened species. Ensuring that these efforts are effective requires a good understanding of the factors which determine survival and integration of released animals into wild populations.
Jessica Harvey‐Carroll, Daire Carroll, Cara-Marie Trivella, Ellen Connelly   +3 more
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Ontogeny of foraging behaviour in an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban marine ecosystems

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urbanization affects ecosystems by reducing biodiversity and displacing species from native habitats. While some suffer, others, like urban wildlife, adapt through innovative feeding and behaviours that improve their fitness in human‐altered settings. Despite research on wildlife in urban areas, the development of foraging behaviour in urban species is
Joan Navarro, Víctor Martín-Vélez, Joan Giménez, José Antonio Garcia, Pablo Cermeño, Jordi Figuerola, Raül Aymí, Tomás Montalvo   +7 more
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Monitoring the effects of ovariectomy on seasonal movement behavior in suburban female white‐tailed deer using internet of things‐enabled devices

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Abundant deer populations often cause conflicts in suburban communities, yet traditional population reduction methods, such as controlled hunting, can be challenging to implement. Fertility control, specifically through ovariectomy, can limit reproduction and reduce populations in certain settings, but its effect on movement behavior remains poorly ...
Vickie DeNicola, Stefano Mezzini, Francesca Cagnacci   +2 more
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Urban bats show dietary flexibility in aquatic arthropod consumption at urban and rural waterbodies

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urban waterbodies are critical for biodiversity and provide feeding grounds for insectivorous bats. Yet, how urbanisation affects bats' food choices at urban waterbodies and the role of emergent aquatic arthropods remain poorly understood. We compared the diet of three urban bat species – Vespadelus vulturnus, Chalinolobus gouldii,and Myotis macropus –
Tanja M. Straka, Melissa E. Carew, Isabel Valenzuela, Stephen R. Griffiths, Pia E. Lentini, Linda F. Lumsden, Rahul Rane, Rodney Ree van der   +7 more
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Priorities for translating goodwill between movement ecologists and conservation practitioners into effective collaboration

Conservation Science and Practice, 2023
Addressing ongoing biodiversity loss requires collaboration between conservation scientists and practitioners. However, such collaboration has proved challenging.
Rascha J. M. Nuijten, Todd E. Katzner, Andrew M. Allen, Allert I. Bijleveld, Tjalle Boorsma, Luca Börger, Francesca Cagnacci, Tom Hart, Michelle A. Henley, Richard M. Herren, Eva M. A. Kok, Bronwyn Maree, Bruno Nebe, David Shohami, Susanne Marieke Vogel, Paul Walker, Ignas M. A. Heitkönig, E. J. Milner‐Gulland   +17 more
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Behavioural state identification from ultra‐high‐frequency movement data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract The hidden Markov model (HMM) is a central framework for identifying behavioural state changes from animal movement data. In this context, movement is typically represented as a sequence of observed metrics, such as step length and turning angle distributions, generated by an unobserved behavioural state process.
Abdulmajeed F. Alharbi, Paul G. Blackwell, James Redcliffe, Luca Börger, Jonathan R. Potts   +4 more
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A capture–recapture framework for combining biologging data with physical captures to decompose and estimate demographic rates: Simulations across life cycles and application to polar bears

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Estimating demographic rates of wild populations is critical to understanding their dynamics but can be challenging because large amounts of data are required, and parts of the life cycle of individuals may be unobserved. In numerous research programmes,
Marwan Naciri, Jon Aars, Magnus Andersen, Andrew E. Derocher, Øystein Wiig, Sarah Cubaynes   +5 more
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Flexible unimodal density estimation in hidden Markov models

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are powerful tools for modelling time‐series data with underlying state structure. However, selecting appropriate parametric forms for the state‐dependent distributions is often challenging and can lead to model misspecification.
Jan‐Ole Fischer, Fanny Dupont, Marie Auger‐Méthé, Marianne Marcoux, Nigel E. Hussey, Nancy E. Heckman   +5 more
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