Electronic tracking devices provide more precise information on animals, similar to the GPS technology found in smartphones.

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers ...

Mobile phones could be the key to a cheaper and more reliable way of tracking animals for ecology and conservation research, according to a new study.

"Monitoring cryptic species and monitoring at scale is a challenge which airborne eDNA may be able to address." ...

Biologgers allow us to see with unprecedented precision how animals move and behave in the wild. But that's only part of the ...

Neither the track nor the scat came from a mountain lion, according to MassWildlife: The scat is coyote, while the tracks ...

The devices are cheap and easy enough to deploy that wildlife researchers can equip entire populations of animals, even in remote areas. It also requires no hands-on tracking or recoveries.

Animal tracking studies for ecology and conservation all face technological limitations, such as high costs or the need for tags to remain in close proximity to detectors. In research published in ...