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Environmental cues and individuality shape diel and seasonal antelope behaviour in African drylands
Large herbivores play a central role in dryland ecosystems, influencing vegetation dynamics, nutrient cycling, and trophic interactions. While they are …
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Spaceborne and UAV-LiDAR reveal hammer-headed bat preference for intermediate canopy height and diverse structure in a Central African rainforest
Abstract Background Animals with key ecological roles, such as seed-dispersing fruit bats, rely to varying degrees on habitat structure to …
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The efficiency of detecting seabird behaviour from movement patterns: the effect of sampling frequency on inferring movement metrics in Procellariiformes
BACKGROUND: Recent technological advances have resulted in low-cost GPS loggers that are small enough to be used on a range …
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Land use drives differential resource selection by African elephants in the Greater Mara Ecosystem, Kenya
Understanding drivers of space use by African elephants is critical to their conservation and management, particularly given their large home-ranges, …
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Variation in herbivore space use: comparing two savanna ecosystems with different anthrax outbreak patterns in southern Africa
BACKGROUND: The distribution of resources can affect animal range sizes, which in turn may alter infectious disease dynamics in heterogenous …
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Environmental and anthropogenic influences on movement and foraging in a critically endangered lemur species, Propithecus tattersalli: implications for habitat conservation planning
BACKGROUND: Wildlife conservation often focuses on establishing protected areas. However, these conservation zones are frequently established without adequate knowledge of …
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Seasonality impacts collective movements in a wild group-living bird
BACKGROUND: A challenge faced by animals living in groups with stable long-term membership is to effectively coordinate their actions and …
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Effects of habitat modifications on the movement behavior of animals: the case study of Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) and tropical tunas
BACKGROUND: Aggregation sites represent important sources of environmental heterogeneity and can modify the movement behavior of animals. When these sites …
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Foraging movements of breeding Kelp Gulls in South Africa
Abstract Background Kelp GullsLarus dominicanusare one of the most abundant gulls in the Southern Hemisphere and can play an important …
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Tracking animal movements using biomarkers in tail hairs: a novel approach for animal geolocating from sulfur isoscapes
Abstract Background Current animal tracking studies are most often based on the application of external geolocators such as GPS and …
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A critical assessment of marine predator isoscapes within the southern Indian Ocean
Abstract Background Precise and accurate retrospective geolocation of marine predators via their tissues’ isotopic composition relies on quality reference maps …
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Mesoscale movement and recursion behaviors of Namibian black rhinos
BACKGROUND: Understanding rhino movement behavior, especially their recursive movements, holds significant promise for enhancing rhino conservation efforts, and protecting their …
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Behavioural compass: animal behaviour recognition using magnetometers
Animal-borne data loggers today often house several sensors recording simultaneously at high frequency. This offers opportunities to gain fine-scale insights …
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Publisher Correction: Resource landscapes explain contrasting patterns of aggregation and site fidelity by red knots at two wintering sites
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40462-018-0142-4.].
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Flyway connectivity and exchange primarily driven by moult migration in geese
BACKGROUND: For the conservation and management of migratory species that strongly decrease or increase due to anthropological impacts, a clear …
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Resource landscapes explain contrasting patterns of aggregation and site fidelity by red knots at two wintering sites
Space use strategies by foraging animals are often considered to be species-specific. However, similarity between conspecific strategies may also result …
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The effect of weather on the decision to migrate from stopover sites by autumn-migrating ducks
Previous investigations of autumn-migrating ducks have reported weak connections between weather conditions and the decision to migrate from stopover sites. …
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Commentary to: a cross-validation-based approach for delimiting reliable home range estimates
BACKGROUND: Continued exploration of the performance of the recently proposed cross-validation-based approach for delimiting home ranges using the Time Local …
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Summer at the beach: spatio-temporal patterns of white shark occurrence along the inshore areas of False Bay, South Africa
BACKGROUND: ) habitat use in coastal areas adjacent to large cities, is an important step when formulating potential solutions to …
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Correction to: A cross-validation-based approach for delimiting reliable home range estimates
The results presented throughout were based on an alternative Information Criterion (IC) equation that did not appear in the original …