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Nathan and colleagues proposed a unifying framework that organizes the study of all organismal movement around four components: the internal state that motivates movement, the navigation capacity that…

Ran Nathan, Wayne M. Getz, Eloy Revilla, Marcel Holyoak, Ronen Kadmon, David Saltz, Peter E. Smouse · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008

Cochran and Lord described one of the first practical VHF radio-tracking systems built for free-ranging wildlife, pairing miniaturized transmitters with directional receiving antennas to fix animal po…

William W. Cochran, Rexford D. Lord Jr. · The Journal of Wildlife Management · 1963

Horne and colleagues introduced the Brownian bridge movement model to home-range and movement analysis, explicitly incorporating the time order of locations and the uncertainty of an animal's path bet…

Jon S. Horne, Edward O. Garton, Stephen M. Krone, Jesse S. Lewis · Ecology · 2007

This introductory review framed a special issue on GPS telemetry, arguing that cheap, dense location data had created both unprecedented opportunity and serious analytical risk for movement ecology. T…

Francesca Cagnacci, Luigi Boitani, Roger A. Powell, Mark S. Boyce · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B · 2010

Thurfjell, Ciuti, and Boyce reviewed the rapidly expanding use of step-selection functions, which model habitat selection by comparing each realized movement step with a set of available alternative s…

Henrik Thurfjell, Simone Ciuti, Mark S. Boyce · Movement Ecology · 2014

Tucker and a global consortium exploited the COVID-19 lockdowns, the so-called anthropause, as a natural experiment, comparing GPS movement of many terrestrial mammal species during strict lockdowns w…

Marlee A. Tucker and colleagues · Science · 2023

Hebblewhite and Haydon offered a candid appraisal of whether the flood of GPS telemetry data had actually advanced ecological understanding or merely generated description. They reviewed how technolog…

Mark Hebblewhite, Daniel T. Haydon · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B · 2010

Clevenger and Waltho analyzed how the design and placement of wildlife underpasses beneath the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park affected their use by different species, drawing on one of th…

Anthony P. Clevenger, Nigel Waltho · Conservation Biology · 2000

Avgar and colleagues developed integrated step selection analysis, which simultaneously estimates habitat selection and the animal's underlying movement kernel, the distribution of step lengths and tu…

Tal Avgar, Jonathan R. Potts, Mark A. Lewis, Mark S. Boyce · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2016

Worton introduced kernel density estimation to home-range analysis, providing a way to estimate the utilization distribution, a probability surface describing how intensively an animal uses each part…

Bruce J. Worton · Ecology · 1989

Tucker and a large international consortium pooled GPS tracking data from many terrestrial mammal species to test whether human footprint constrains animal movement, finding that mammals in areas of h…

Marlee A. Tucker and colleagues · Science · 2018

This review synthesized how tri-axial accelerometers had become a workhorse for inferring behavior in animals that are difficult or impossible to watch directly, including cryptic and nocturnal carniv…

Danielle D. Brown, Roland Kays, Martin Wikelski, Rory Wilson, A. Peter Klimley · Animal Biotelemetry · 2013

This paper introduced the daily diary concept, a multi-sensor logger recording tri-axial acceleration, magnetometry, and environmental variables at high frequency to reconstruct an animal's behavior a…

Rory P. Wilson, Emily L. C. Shepard, Nikolai Liebsch · Endangered Species Research · 2008

Raw telemetry data contain implausible points, fixes computed from too few satellites, signal multipath, or transmission glitches, that can corrupt analyses if left in. This overview surveys screening…

As tracking generated ever-larger datasets, shared infrastructure became essential, and this overview describes how repositories such as Movebank let researchers store, manage, and selectively share a…

This overview describes how field teams located collared cats before satellite positioning existed, relying on VHF beacons and directional antennas. Ground observers took compass bearings from multipl…

This overview surveys how tri-axial acceleration data from collars are translated into behavioral states for cats, enabling activity budgets and the detection of key events like kills. Researchers typ…

Movement models can be turned around to simulate animals, generating virtual trajectories from estimated movement rules to predict population-level patterns. This overview describes agent-based and in…

Classic home-range estimators assume that successive locations are statistically independent, an assumption that high-frequency GPS data violate flagrantly, since fixes minutes apart are highly correl…

The greatest source of variability in kernel home-range estimates is the smoothing bandwidth, and this overview surveys the competing approaches and their pitfalls. The reference bandwidth tends to ov…

Southeast Asia harbors a rich diversity of poorly studied forest cats, from clouded leopards to marbled cats, leopard cats, and others, and this overview examines the sparse but growing movement resea…

Fitting a collar is an intervention, and this overview surveys efforts to test whether the device itself alters the behavior, movement, or condition of the animal being studied. Concerns include captu…

As climate change shifts the distribution of suitable habitat, corridors that connect populations today may not align with where animals need to move tomorrow, and this overview examines how researche…

Wildlife crossings and fencing are expensive, and this overview examines how their costs are weighed against benefits in road-mitigation planning. Benefits include reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions,…

Home ranges are often summarized by isopleths, contours of the utilization distribution enclosing a chosen percentage of use, with the full range commonly set at 95 percent and the core at 50 percent.…

To trust accelerometer-derived energy estimates, researchers validate them against independent physiological measures, and the doubly labelled water method is a gold standard for field metabolic rate.…

Dynamic Brownian bridge movement models extend the basic Brownian bridge by letting the animal's movement variance change along the track, so that fast directed travel and slow localized activity are…

Small cats present a hardware problem: their necks may be too slender or their lives too cryptic for conventional collars, so researchers explore alternatives. This overview considers ear-mounted tags…

A wildlife crossing works only if animals are guided to it, and this overview examines the critical role of fencing in funneling wildlife toward structures while keeping them off the road. Exclusion f…

Animals searching for patchy resources often slow down and turn more when they encounter good habitat, a behavior called area-restricted search, and first-passage time is a classic metric for detectin…