The success of GPS collar deployments on mammals in Australia

• Published in: Australian Mammalogy
• Main Authors: Matthews, Alison, Ruykys, Laura, Ellis, Bill, FitzGibbon, Sean, Lunney, Daniel, Crowther, Mathew S., Glen, Alistair S., Purcell, Brad, Moseby, Katherine, Stott, Jenny, Fletcher, Don, Wimpenny, Claire, Allen, Benjamin L., Van Bommel, Linda, Roberts, Michael, Davies, Nicole, Green, Ken, Newsome, Thomas, Ballard, Guy, Fleming, Peter, Dickman, Christopher R., Eberhart, Achim, Troy, Shannon, Mcmahon, Clive, Wiggins, Natasha
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: C S I R O 2013
• Subjects: Field performance; Fix success; Location data; Satellite; Wildlife tracking; 1103 Animal Science and Zoology; 1105 Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; Giganteus; Canis lupus
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:298674

Global Positioning System (GPS) wildlife telemetry collars are being used increasingly to understand the movement patterns of wild mammals. However, there are few published studies on which to gauge their general utility and success. This paper highlights issues faced by some of the first researcher...