Big-data approaches lead to an increased understanding of the ecology of animal movement

R Nathan, CT Monk, R Arlinghaus, T Adam, J Alós… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding animal movement is essential to elucidate how animals interact, survive, and
thrive in a changing world. Recent technological advances in data collection and …

Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation

J Cavender-Bares, FD Schneider, MJ Santos… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Remote sensing has transformed the monitoring of life on Earth by revealing spatial and
temporal dimensions of biological diversity through structural, compositional and functional …

Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut

J Lauer, M Zhou, S Ye, W Menegas, S Schneider… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Estimating the pose of multiple animals is a challenging computer vision problem: frequent
interactions cause occlusions and complicate the association of detected keypoints to the …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation

D Tuia, B Kellenberger, S Beery, BR Costelloe… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inexpensive and accessible sensors are accelerating data acquisition in animal ecology.
These technologies hold great potential for large-scale ecological understanding, but are …

Using DeepLabCut for 3D markerless pose estimation across species and behaviors

T Nath, A Mathis, AC Chen, A Patel, M Bethge… - Nature protocols, 2019 - nature.com
Noninvasive behavioral tracking of animals during experiments is critical to many scientific
pursuits. Extracting the poses of animals without using markers is often essential to …

Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities

M Besson, J Alison, K Bjerge, TE Gorochowski… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution monitoring is fundamental to understand ecosystems dynamics in an era of
global change and biodiversity declines. While real‐time and automated monitoring of …

DeepPoseKit, a software toolkit for fast and robust animal pose estimation using deep learning

JM Graving, D Chae, H Naik, L Li, B Koger… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Quantitative behavioral measurements are important for answering questions across
scientific disciplines—from neuroscience to ecology. State-of-the-art deep-learning methods …

Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space

AK Skidmore, NC Coops, E Neinavaz, A Ali… - Nature ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Monitoring global biodiversity from space through remotely sensing geospatial patterns has
high potential to add to our knowledge acquired by field observation. Although a framework …

Broad‐scale applications of the Raspberry Pi: A review and guide for biologists

JW Jolles - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The field of biology has seen tremendous technological progress in recent years, fuelled by
the exponential growth in processing power and high‐level computing, and the rise of global …

Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk

MS Palmer, KM Gaynor, JA Becker, JO Abraham… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
The landscape of fear (LOF) concept posits that prey navigate spatial heterogeneity in
perceived predation risk, balancing risk mitigation against other activities necessary for …