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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
methods in ecology and evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.425
H-Index - 105
ISSN - 2041-210X
DOI - 10.1111/2041-210x.13409
Subject(s) - wildlife , cover (algebra) , geography , telemetry , population , sampling (signal processing) , computer science , national park , land cover , cartography , environmental resource management , ecology , telecommunications , land use , engineering , environmental science , biology , demography , sociology , mechanical engineering , archaeology , detector
This month’s cover shows a residential male African lion ( Panthera leo ) taken in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Lions have been studied using both VHF and GPS telemetry data, which can be used to derive contact networks for studies of infectious disease spread in wildlife. In their article, Gilbertson et al. investigated the consequences of telemetry sampling limitations–the frequency with which locations are recorded, and the proportion of the population tracked–on subsequent wildlife contact networks. Local network metrics of connectivity were fairly robust to telemetry sampling, but global metrics were less so. These results can be used to strategically plan telemetry sampling of wildlife based on trade‐offs between network metrics, sampling limitations, and the target population’s spatial configuration. Image credit: ©Meggan E. Craft