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	Akustisk telemetri	Focal Animal Sampling	Mikrohabitatpreferensanalys
Ämnesområde	Veterinärvetenskap	Veterinärvetenskap	Veterinärvetenskap
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1960	1974	1970s–1980s (formalized)
Upphovsperson	Fish Tracking Pioneer Community	Jeanne Altmann	Multiple contributors (Morris, Manly, Johnson, and others)
Typ	Remote Monitoring Technology	Behavioral Sampling Protocol	Quantitative observational method
Ursprungskälla	Eiler, J. H. (2013). Acoustic telemetry. In C. R. Cooke & D. W. Philipp (Eds.), Telemetry Techniques and Technology (pp. 1-45). Springer.	Altmann, J. (1974). Observational study of behavior: sampling methods. Behaviour, 49(3-4), 227-267.	Morris, D. W. (1987). Ecological scale and habitat use. Ecology, 68(2), 362–369.
Alias	acoustic tracking, telemetry monitoring, underwater tracking	FAS, focal sampling, behavior recording	habitat selection analysis, microhabitat use analysis, fine-scale habitat preference study, microhabitat utilization assessment
Närliggande	3	3	1
Sammanfattning	Acoustic telemetry is a remote tracking method in which small electronic transmitters attached to or implanted in animals emit unique acoustic signals detectable by underwater or terrestrial receiver networks, enabling real-time monitoring of animal movements, positions, and behavior over extended distances and times. Pioneered in fisheries research in the 1960s, acoustic telemetry is now standard for studying movement ecology, migration timing, and habitat use in aquatic and increasingly terrestrial systems.	Focal Animal Sampling (FAS) is a systematic observational method in which an observer focuses on one individual animal at a time, recording its behavior continuously or at regular intervals for a fixed period. Introduced by Jeanne Altmann in 1974, FAS provides detailed, quantitative ethograms of individual behavior, making it essential for studying animal behavioral ecology, welfare, and responses to environmental changes.	Microhabitat Preference Analysis is a quantitative ecological method used to determine which fine-scale environmental features — such as vegetation structure, substrate type, temperature, or cover — animals actively select beyond what is randomly available to them. Widely applied in veterinary science, wildlife biology, and ethology, it compares the characteristics of locations an animal uses against those of randomly sampled available locations to infer habitat preference, avoidance, or random use.