Distributing transmitters to maximize population-level representativeness in automated radio telemetry studies of animal movement

Table 1 Species-specific site- and population-level representativeness (R) for individuals tracked from each site or combination of sites, and projected sample sizes needed to achieve 80–95% representativeness at the population and site levels

	Site	n	Tagging site				Population
	Site	n	R	80%	90%	95%	R	80%	90%	95%
Piping plover
One tagging site	Rhode Island (RI)	61	87%	37	81		59%
	Massachusetts (MA)	62	87%	36	75		65%
	Bahamas	6	27%	51	128		21%
Two tagging sites	RI + Bahamas	67	87%	34	73		68%
	MA + Bahamas	68	85%	38	83		81%	129
	RI + MA	123	95%	35	66	94	93%	43	94	121
Three tagging sites	All	129	96%	34	64	90	96%	42	90	125
Common tern
One tagging site	Great Gull Island (GG)	140	98%	24	46	84	81%
	Buzzards Bay (BB)	57	93%	29	50		76%
	Monomoy Island (MY)	65	88%	41			47%
Two tagging sites	GG + MY	205	98%	29	58	105	81%	136
	BB + MY	122	94%	55	95		83%	84
	GG + BB	197	97%	36	88	123	94%	58	124	164
Three tagging sites	All	262	97%	43	109	155	97%	76	145	208

ISSN: 2051-3933