Challenges and prospects in the telemetry of insects

• Published in: Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Vol. 89; no. 3; pp. 511 - 530
• Main Authors: Daniel Kissling, W., Pattemore, David E., Hagen, Melanie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2014
• Subjects: Aerial surveys; Animal Identification Systems - methods; Animals; automated telemetry; Behavior, Animal; Biotelemetry; body size; Coleoptera; Dispersal; Flight, Animal; Foraging behavior; Gryllidae; Habitat selection; Habitat utilization; Helicopters; Hymenoptera; Insecta - physiology; Insects; Invertebrates; Landscape ecology; Megaloptera; Odonata; Orchidaceae; Orthoptera; Radar; radio tag; radio tracking; receiver; Receivers & amplifiers; satellite; Telemetry; Tropical environments; receiver; radio tag; radio tracking; body size; dispersal; landscape ecology; satellite; automated telemetry; invertebrates

ABSTRACT Radio telemetry has been widely used to study the space use and movement behaviour of vertebrates, but transmitter sizes have only recently become small enough to allow tracking of insects under natural field conditions. Here, we review the available literature on insect telemetry using act...