How Big Data Fast Tracked Human Mobility Research and the Lessons for Animal Movement Ecology

The rise of the internet coupled with technological innovations such as smartphones have generated massive volumes of geo-referenced data (big data) on human mobility. This has allowed the number of studies of human mobility to rapidly overtake those of animal movement. Today, telemetry studies of a...

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Main Authors: Michele Thums, Juan Fernández-Gracia, Ana M. M. Sequeira, Víctor M. Eguíluz, Carlos M. Duarte, Mark G. Meekan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00021/full