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dc.contributor.authorMarshall, HH
dc.contributor.authorGriffiths, DJ
dc.contributor.authorMwanguhya, F
dc.contributor.authorBusinge, R
dc.contributor.authorGriffiths, AGF
dc.contributor.authorKyabulima, S
dc.contributor.authorMwesige, K
dc.contributor.authorSanderson, JL
dc.contributor.authorThompson, FJ
dc.contributor.authorVitikainen, EIK
dc.contributor.authorCant, MA
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-24T13:00:58Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-09
dc.description.abstractStudying ecological and evolutionary processes in the natural world often requires research projects to follow multiple individuals in the wild over many years. These projects have provided significant advances but may also be hampered by needing to accurately and efficiently collect and store multiple streams of the data from multiple individuals concurrently. The increase in the availability and sophistication of portable computers (smartphones and tablets) and the applications that run on them has the potential to address many of these data collection and storage issues. In this paper we describe the challenges faced by one such long-term, individual-based research project: the Banded Mongoose Research Project in Uganda. We describe a system we have developed called Mongoose 2000 that utilises the potential of apps and portable computers to meet these challenges. We discuss the benefits and limitations of employing such a system in a long-term research project. The app and source code for the Mongoose 2000 system are freely available and we detail how it might be used to aid data collection and storage in other long-term individual-based projects.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant (309249) and Natural Environment Research Council (UK) Standard Grant (NE/J010278/1).en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 13, article e0190740en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0190740
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/31170
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_GB
dc.relation.sourceThe source code for the current release of the software described in the article (version 2.5 at the time of writing) is available from http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.55222 and further updates can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/nebogeo/mongoose-web.en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29315317en_GB
dc.rights© 2018 Marshall et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_GB
dc.titleData collection and storage in long-term ecological and evolutionary studies: The Mongoose 2000 systemen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2018-01-24T13:00:58Z
exeter.place-of-publicationUnited Statesen_GB
dc.descriptionThis is the final version of the article. Available from Public Library of Science via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalPLoS Oneen_GB


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