Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

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…

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  National Science Foundation

  Awards: DBI 0756920, DEB 1026764, DBI-1262600, DEB-1441737, BCS 1440755, EF 1232442, DBI 0960550, IOS 1250895
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  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Award: NNX11AP72G