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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2022

Decision rules for determining terrestrial movement and the consequences for filtering high-resolution global positioning system tracks: a case study using the African lion (

Richard M Gunner, Rory P Wilson, Mark D Holton, Phil Hopkins, Stephen H Bell, Nikki J Marks, Nigel C Bennett, Sam Ferreira, Danny Govender, Pauli Viljoen and 9 more

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors at 9 institutions in 6 countries.

Richard M GunnerSwansea Lab for Animal Movement, Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2054-9944
Rory P WilsonSwansea Lab for Animal Movement, Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3177-0107
Mark D HoltonSwansea Lab for Animal Movement, Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK.
Phil HopkinsSwansea Lab for Animal Movement, Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK.
Stephen H BellSchool of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 19 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast BT9 5DL, UK.
Nikki J MarksSchool of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 19 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast BT9 5DL, UK.
Nigel C BennettMammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 002, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9748-2947
Sam FerreiraSavanna and Grassland Research Unit, South African National Parks, Scientific Services Skukuza, Kruger National Park, Skukuza 1350, South Africa.
Danny GovenderSavanna and Grassland Research Unit, South African National Parks, Scientific Services Skukuza, Kruger National Park, Skukuza 1350, South Africa.
Pauli ViljoenSavanna and Grassland Research Unit, South African National Parks, Scientific Services Skukuza, Kruger National Park, Skukuza 1350, South Africa.
Angela BrunsVeterinary Wildlife Services, South African National Parks, 97 Memorial Road, Old Testing Grounds, 8301 Kimberley, South Africa.
O Louis van SchalkwykDepartment of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Government of South Africa, Skukuza, South Africa.
Mads F BertelsenCenter for Zoo and Wild Animal Health, Copenhagen Zoo, Roskildevej 38, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark.
Carlos M DuarteRed Sea Research Centre, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia.
Martin C van RooyenMammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 002, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-2592-1394
Craig J TamblingDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, University of Fort Hare Alice Campus, Ring Road, Alice 5700, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-9830-5985
Aoife GöppertSchool of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 19 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast BT9 5DL, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9100-5717
Delmar DieselSchool of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 19 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast BT9 5DL, UK.
D Michael ScantleburySchool of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 19 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast BT9 5DL, UK.
Queen's University Belfast · GBSouth African National Parks · ZAMax Planck Institute of Animal Behavior · DEUniversity of Pretoria · ZAAptar (Germany) · DEGovernment of South Africa · ZAKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology · SARoskilde Sygehus · DKUniversity of Fort Hare · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The combined use of global positioning system (GPS) technology and motion sensors within the discipline of movement ecology has increased over recent years. This is particularly the case for instrumented wildlife, with many studies now opting to record parameters at high (infra-second) sampling frequencies. However, the detail with which GPS loggers can elucidate fine-scale movement depends on the precision and accuracy of fixes, with accuracy being affected by signal reception. We hypothesized that animal behaviour was the main factor affecting fix inaccuracy, with inherent GPS positional noise (jitter) being most apparent during GPS fixes for non-moving locations, thereby producing disproportionate error during rest periods. A movement-verified filtering (MVF) protocol was constructed to compare GPS-derived speed data with dynamic body acceleration, to provide a computationally quick method for identifying genuine travelling movement. This method was tested on 11 free-ranging lions (

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Geographic Information SystemsLionsAnimalsAnimals, WildEcologyMovementaccelerationanimal behaviourdata filteringglobal positioning systemhighresolutionterrestrial movement

Identifiers

PMID35042386
PMCPMC8767188
OpenAlexW4206629159

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