ArticleEcology and evolution2020
Accounting for space and uncertainty in real-time location system-derived contact networks.
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- The effect of temporal resolution and contact duration on Real-Time location system-based contact networks for confined feedlot cattle.Preventive veterinary medicine · 2025Article
- A wrap-around movement path randomization method to distinguish social and spatial drivers of animal interactions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Analysis of within-pen and between-pen fenceline temporal contact networks in confined feedlot cattle.Preventive veterinary medicine · 2024Article
- Comparing transmission potential networks based on social network surveys, close contacts and environmental overlap in rural Madagascar.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Combining epidemiological and ecological methods to quantify social effects onRoyal Society open science · 2021Article
- CORRIGENDUM.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Accounting for space and uncertainty in real-time location system-derived contact networks.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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- Erratum issuedCORRIGENDUM.2020
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Point data obtained from real-time location systems (RTLSs) can be processed into animal contact networks, describing instances of interaction between tracked individuals. Proximity-based definitions of interanimal "contact," however, may be inadequate for describing epidemiologically and sociologically relevant interactions involving body parts or other physical spaces relatively far from tracking devices. This weakness can be overcome by using polygons, rather than points, to represent tracked individuals and defining "contact" as polygon intersections.We present novel procedures for deriving polygons from RTLS point data while maintaining distances and orientations associated with individuals' relocation events. We demonstrate the versatility of this methodology for network modeling using two contact network creation examples, wherein we use this procedure to create (a) interanimal physical contact networks and (b) a visual contact network. Additionally, in creating our networks, we establish another procedure to adjust definitions of "contact" to account for RTLS positional accuracy, ensuring all true contacts are likely captured and represented in our networks.Using the methods described herein and the associated R package we have developed, called
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