Accuracy and performance of low‐feature GPS collars deployed on bison <i>Bison bison</i> and caribou <i>Rangifer tarandus</i>

Jung, Thomas S.; Hegel, Troy; Bentzen, Torsten W.; Egli, Katherina; Jessup, Lars; Kienzler, Martin; Kuba, Kazuhisa; Kukka, Piia M.; Russell, Kyle; Suitor, Michael J.; Takagi, Kenji

doi:10.2981/wlb.00404

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“…The performance of the devices was evaluated using similar measures to Jung et al (). Overall performance was taken from deployment success rate, measuring how many devices were working on deployment, and the early failure rate, measuring how many of the devices stopped collecting data earlier than expected.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A comparison of commercially available collars deployed on Australian mammals by Matthews et al () found that 48.6% of collars deployed failed early, with 30% of collars having intermittent failures during deployment. However, Jung et al () had an 89% overall deployment success rate on over 100 collars of a single brand and type deployed. Collins, Petersen, Carr, and Pielstick () compared custom devices to commercial devices where their custom devices had a high failure rate (7/8) which suggests that the devices trialled here may be more reliable than other custom devices but does highlight the risk that could occur with custom devices.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Significant recent advances in wildlife telemetry have made GPS collars readily available and less expensive due to reduction in prices in the components, mass production and increased competition from newer companies (Hebblewhite & Haydon, ; Jung et al, ; Thomas, Holland, & Minot, ). GPS tracking devices are becoming the standard in wildlife research and monitoring work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Customization of commercial devices to allow for collection of specific data types, such as raw formats, or at desired frequency to meet the requirements of a specific study or species is possible with direct consultation with the manufacturers. However, this customization generally comes at an increased expense while lower cost commercial devices come at the price of heavily reduced features (Jung et al, ). To avoid expense or to gain features, there has been a rise in recent years of researchers building their own devices (Clark et al, ; Fischer et al, ).…”

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Open‐source, low‐cost modular GPS collars for monitoring and tracking wildlife

Foley

Sillero‐Zubiri

2020

Methods Ecol Evol

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Monitoring the movements and behaviour of wildlife using radio telemetry or GPS devices has been critical to the fields of ecology and conservation over several decades. For many field projects however, commercially available devices can be expensive and may not always be ideally suited for collecting desired data. We present a low‐cost solution of customizable tracking devices based on the open‐source Arduino system. These devices can be custom designed for specific studies and easily programmed to collect desired data. Custom‐built collars with GPS and accelerometer units were trialled on 30 free‐ranging domestic dogs in rural Ethiopia. These collars collected high‐resolution data at a frequency of 10 fixes per hour and accelerometer data at 10 Hz over a 10‐day period, at a cost of approximately £100 ($130 USD) per collar. These devices can be placed on any species that can handle a weight of 15.4 g plus battery and housing. The current configuration weighs approximately 240 g which would be suitable for any animal above 8 kg living in terrestrial environments.

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2020

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“…tracking device can record the longitude and latitude directly with high accuracy (<10 m) 19 , particularly in an open landscape 20,21 and/or with more satellites 21 . Thus, this system allowed us to delineate the whole migration route and to track fine-scale habitat use during the migration period.…”

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Rice fields along the East Asian-Australasian flyway are important habitats for an inland wader’s migration

Kasahara

Morimoto

Kitamura

et al. 2020

Sci Rep

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To maintain and recover populations of migratory waders, we must identify the important stopover sites and habitat use along migration routes. However, we have little such information for waders that depend on inland freshwater areas compared with those that depend on coastal areas. Recent technological developments in tracking devices now allow us to define habitat use at a fine scale. In this study, we used GPS loggers to track both spring and autumn migration along the East Asian-Australasian flyway of the little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) as birds moved to and from their breeding grounds, gravel riverbeds in Japan. The birds we tracked overwintered in the Philippines and made stopovers mainly in Taiwan and the Philippines. The most important habitat during the nonbreeding season was rice paddy fields. Our findings imply that changes in agriculture management policy in the countries along the migration route could critically affect the migration of waders that depend on rice paddy fields. To maintain populations of migrant inland waders that move within the East Asian-Australasian flyway, it is necessary not only to sustain the breeding habitat but also wetlands including the rice paddy fields as foraging habitat for the non-breeding season. Migrant waders have been decreasing on a worldwide scale 1-5 due to various complex reasons 6 , such as land-use change 2 and increasing human activity 4,5. Since these migrant birds use multiple habitats and climatic zones within their annual life cycle 7 , identifying the migration pattern and route, including the habitats used along the way, is imperative for understanding the factors that affect population changes and/or contribute to efficient conservation activities. The loss or degradation of stopover sites is a particularly serious issue 1,2,4-6. In recent decades, therefore, many studies have investigated the migration patterns, detailed migration routes, and important stopover sites for several waders by using tracking methods ranging from traditional color flagging to advanced systems such as satellite and light-level geolocators 8-12. Studies of migration ecology of waders, however, have mainly focused on species that depend on coastal areas (i.e., shorebirds), and there is still little information on those that depend on inland freshwater areas. The low visibility of inland waders compared with that of coastal waders and the coarse spatial resolution of previously used tracking devices (light-level geolocators 13 , 50-200 km; Argos system, <150 m under good conditions and >1000 m under worse conditions 14) made it difficult to determine the fine-scale habitat use of individuals. However, inland natural wetlands have been dramatically declining on a global scale 15 , and some studies in the East Asian-Australasian flyway (EAAF) reported that waders that depend on inland habitat such as rice paddy fields have been decreasing 2,16. For migrant birds, rice paddy fields function much like semi-natural wetlands 17 , and rice is grown across a wide range of la...

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Optimal foraging by a large ungulate in an extreme environment: Wild mountain reindeer select snow‐free feeding habitats in winter

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Strand

Mossing

et al. 2021

Ecology and Evolution

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Accuracy and performance of low‐feature GPS collars deployed on bison Bison bison and caribou Rangifer tarandus

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Cited by 27 publications

References 38 publications

Open‐source, low‐cost modular GPS collars for monitoring and tracking wildlife

Open‐source, low‐cost modular GPS collars for monitoring and tracking wildlife

Rice fields along the East Asian-Australasian flyway are important habitats for an inland wader’s migration

Optimal foraging by a large ungulate in an extreme environment: Wild mountain reindeer select snow‐free feeding habitats in winter

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