Calibrating animal‐borne proximity loggers

• Published in: Methods in ecology and evolution Vol. 6; no. 6; pp. 656 - 667
• Main Authors: Rutz, Christian, Morrissey, Michael B., Burns, Zackory T., Burt, John, Otis, Brian, St Clair, James J. H., James, Richard, Lecomte, Nicolas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.06.2015; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Animal behavior; animal social network; Behavioral Ecology; biologging; business card tag; Calibration; Computer simulation; contact network; Corvus moneduloides; Data collection; direct and indirect encounter mapping; Encounternet; Field tests; Mathematical models; Proximity; Radio attenuation; Radio communications; Radio waves; reality mining; Social networks; Social organization; Species; Statistical models; Tracking systems; transceiver tag; Wave attenuation; Wave propagation; wireless sensor network; direct and indirect encounter mapping; animal social network; reality mining; business card tag; transceiver tag; wireless sensor network; contact network; Encounternet; Corvus moneduloides; biologging

Summary Growing interest in the structure and dynamics of animal social networks has stimulated efforts to develop automated tracking technologies that can reliably record encounters in free‐ranging subjects. A particularly promising approach is the use of animal‐attached ‘proximity loggers’, which...