Interpreting Small-Scale Patterns of Ranging by Primates

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9 - Interpreting Small-Scale Patterns of Ranging by Primates

What Does It Mean, and Why Does It Matter?

from Part II - GIS Analysis in Fine-Scale Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2021

Mitchell T. Irwin and

Jean-Luc Raharison

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Francine L. Dolins ,

Christopher A. Shaffer ,

Leila M. Porter ,

Jena R. Hickey and

Nathan P. Nibbelink

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Francine L. Dolins: Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Dearborn
Christopher A. Shaffer: Affiliation:
Grand Valley State University, Michigan
Leila M. Porter: Affiliation:
Northern Illinois University
Jena R. Hickey: Affiliation:
University of Georgia
Nathan P. Nibbelink: Affiliation:
University of Georgia

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Advances in technologies like GPS units, GPS collars, and GIS software have surged ahead in recent decades, allowing primatologists to quantify many aspects of their study subjects’ spatial ecology with increasing ease and accuracy. We have come a long way from the times when pioneering field primatologists would do things like measuring daily path lengths by contorting a piece of string along an animal track hand-drawn on a scale map of their trail system. However, at the same time as welcoming these advances, it is important for primatologists to continue working on the related issue of interpretation. Science, after all, is more than technology, and once the coolness factor wears off we need to ask ourselves what all those data are telling us at the end of the day.

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Information: Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology
Applying GIS at Varying Scales
, pp. 180 - 203

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107449824.011 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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