Radio Tracking And Animal Populations

Radio Tracking and Animal Populations is a succinct synthesis of emerging technologies and their applications to the empirical and theoretical problems of population assessment. The book is divided into sections designed to encompass the various aspects of animal ecology that may be evaluated using radiotelemetry technology - experimental design, equipment and technology, animal movement, resource selection, and demographics. Wildlife biologists at the leading edge of new developments in the technology and its application have joined forces.

With the substantial advances in the miniaturization of electronic components, wildlife biologists now routinely monitor the movements of free-ranging animals with radio-tracking devices. This book explicates the many analytical techniques and computer programs available to extract biological information from the radio tracking data. Presentation of software programs for solving specific problems Design of radio-tracking studies Mechanics of data collection Estimation of position by triangulation Graphic presentation of animal migration, dispersal, fidelity, and association Home range estimation, habitat utilization, and estimation of survival rates and population size

Previous ed.: published as Wildlife radio tagging, 1987.

In the face of so many unprecedented changes in our environment, the pressure is on scientists to lead the way toward a more sustainable future. Written by a team of ecologists, Monitoring Animal Populations and Their Habitats: A Practitioner’s Guide provides a framework that natural resource managers and researchers can use to design monitoring programs that will benefit future generations by distilling the information needed to make informed decisions. In addition, this text is valuable for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses that are focused on monitoring animal populations. With the aid of more than 90 illustrations and a four-page color insert, this book offers practical guidance for the entire monitoring process, from incorporating stakeholder input and data collection, to data management, analysis, and reporting. It establishes the basis for why, what, how, where, and when monitoring should be conducted; describes how to analyze and interpret the data; explains how to budget for monitoring efforts; and discusses how to assemble reports of use in decision-making. The book takes a multi-scaled and multi-taxa approach, focusing on monitoring vertebrate populations and upland habitats, but the recommendations and suggestions presented are applicable to a variety of monitoring programs. Lastly, the book explores the future of monitoring techniques, enabling researchers to better plan for the future of wildlife populations and their habitats. Monitoring Animal Populations and Their Habitats: A Practitioner’s Guide furthers the goal of achieving a world in which biodiversity is allowed to evolve and flourish in the face of such uncertainties as climate change, invasive species proliferation, land use expansion, and population growth.

A study of the applications of telemetry and long-distance tracking techniques to the study of animals in the wild. In addition to a description of various types of monitoring techniques, the text provides technical notes on transmitter attachment and circuit design.

" This is the history of radio tracking of wild animals that began with the dream of Dr. Dwain W. Warner, curator of Birds at the museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota. He watched closely when in 1957, the Russians sent the dog, Laika, into space and were prepared to monitor her physiological condition as she circled the earth. He felt this technology could be used to study wild animals in their natural environment, and he set out to accomplish that goal. The creativity of the many people involved in developing and using radio telemetry at Cedar Creek Natural History Area was astounding. What began as studies done at Cedar Creek evolved to studies being done all over the world. It includes the writing of many of these people who were directly involved in the exciting development of radio tracking. This technology allowed knowledge of wild animal behaior that had never before been possible"--Cover.