Quantifying animal movements is necessary for answering a wide array of research questions in ecology and conservation biology. Consequently, ecologists have made considerable efforts to identify the best way to estimate an animal's home range, and many methods of estimating home ranges have arisen over the past half a century. Most of these methods fall into two distinct categories of estimators that have only recently been d...

Over the last decade, proliferations of benthic mat‐forming Phormidium have been reported with increasing frequency in New Zealand’s cobble‐bed rivers. The dominant species within these mats ( Phormidium autumnale ) commonly produces a range of neurotoxins, collectively known as anatoxins. Ingestion of toxic Phormidium ‐dominated mats has resulted in the death of an estimated 100 dogs at New Zealand’s rivers since 2005. In Sep...