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Drone Observations of Marine Life and Human–Wildlife Interactions off Sydney, Australia
Drones, 2022 Drones have become popular with the general public for viewing and filming marine life. One amateur enthusiast platform, DroneSharkApp, films marine life in the waters off Sydney, Australia year-round and posts their observations on social media.
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Using accelerometers to develop time-energy budgets of wild fur seals from captive surrogates [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Accurate time-energy budgets summarise an animal’s energy expenditure in a given environment, and are potentially a sensitive indicator of how an animal responds to changing resources. Deriving accurate time-energy budgets requires an estimate
Monique A. Ladds +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Many large predator populations are in decline globally with significant implications for ecosystem integrity and function. Understanding the drivers of their decline is required to adequately mitigate threats.
Andrew J. Loveridge +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Information on resource use and trophic dynamics of marine predators is important for understanding their role in ecosystem functioning and predicting population‐level responses to environmental change.
Jonathan A. Botha +8 more
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A critical assessment of marine predator isoscapes within the southern Indian Ocean
Movement Ecology, 2020 Background Precise and accurate retrospective geolocation of marine predators via their tissues’ isotopic composition relies on quality reference maps of relevant isotopic gradients (“isoscapes”).
Tegan Carpenter-Kling +4 more
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Animal Biotelemetry, 2017 Background Semi-automating the analyses of accelerometry data makes it possible to synthesize large data sets. However, when constructing activity budgets from accelerometry data, there are many methods to extract, analyse and report data and results ...
Monique A. Ladds +5 more
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The effect of relatedness and pack size on territory overlap in African wild dogs
Movement Ecology, 2017 Background Spacing patterns mediate competitive interactions between conspecifics, ultimately increasing fitness. The degree of territorial overlap between neighbouring African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) packs varies greatly, yet the role of factors ...
Craig R. Jackson +3 more
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Intolerant baboons avoid observer proximity, creating biased inter-individual association patterns
Scientific Reports, 2022 Social network analysis is an increasingly popular tool for behavioural ecologists exploring the social organisation of animal populations. Such analyses require data on inter-individual association patterns, which in wild populations are often collected
Andrew T. L. Allan +2 more
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Foraging behaviour and habitat-use drives niche segregation in sibling seabird species
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 To mediate competition, similar sympatric species are assumed to use different resources, or the same but geographically separated resources. The two giant petrels (Macronectes spp.) are intriguing in that they are morphologically similar seabirds with ...
Ryan R. Reisinger +4 more
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Animal-borne acoustic data alone can provide high accuracy classification of activity budgets
Animal Biotelemetry, 2021 Background Studies on animal behaviour often involve the quantification of the occurrence and duration of various activities. When direct observations are challenging (e.g., at night, in a burrow, at sea), animal-borne devices can be used to remotely ...
Andréa Thiebault +4 more
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