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Radioactive techniques for small mammal marking

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The use of radioactive tracking of small vertebrates as an ecological tool dates from the early 1950s. The first published account of this technique is by Griffin (1952), who recorded nest visits of radioactively marked Semipalmated plover, using an automatic monitoring device. Griffm’s paper is noteworthy also because it examines in a comprehensive and lucid manner the essential considerations which ought to be (but have not always been) observed by users of this and related techniques.

Ian Linn is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, where he held a wartime post. After two years of research in the Department of Zoology, University of Bristol, he went to Exeter where he remains today as a Senior Lecturer. During 1970/71 he was seconded to Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda as Reader and Acting Head of the Department of Zoology. His main research interest over the years has been the ecology and behaviour of small mammals, but while in Africa he became interested in lions, and since returning to England has concentrated on carnivorous mammals, particularly the feral mink.

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Linn, I.J. (1978). Radioactive techniques for small mammal marking. In: Stonehouse, B. (eds) Animal Marking. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03711-7_19

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