Publications by authors named "Kirsty A Franklin"
Monitoring animal populations is crucial for assessing the health of ecosystems. Traditional methods, which require extensive fieldwork, are increasingly being supplemented by time-lapse camera-trap imagery combined with an automatic analysis of the image data. The latter usually involves some object detector aimed at detecting relevant targets (commonly animals) in each image, followed by some postprocessing to gather activity and population data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChanges in phenology and distribution are being widely reported for many migratory species in response to shifting environmental conditions. Understanding these changes and the situations in which they occur can be aided by understanding consistent individual differences in phenology and distribution and the situations in which consistency varies in strength or detectability. Studies tracking the same individuals over consecutive years are increasingly reporting migratory timings to be a repeatable trait, suggesting that flexible individual responses to environmental conditions may contribute little to population-level changes in phenology and distribution.
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- Migratory species exhibit both individual and group variations in their migratory strategies, which can affect how they respond to environmental changes.
- Research on Round Island petrels showed significant differences in migration patterns among individuals, with non-breeding migrations occurring throughout the Indian Ocean at various times of the year.
- Despite high individual variability in routes, petrels demonstrated a surprising degree of consistency in their own migratory behaviors from year to year, especially among those departing at similar times.