This month’s cover shows a residential male African lion (Panthera leo) taken in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Lions have been studied using both VHF and GPS telemetry data, which can be used to derive contact networks for studies of infectious disease spread in wildlife. In their article, Gilbertson et al. investigated the consequences of telemetry sampling limitations–the frequency with which locations are recorded, and the proportion of the population tracked–on subsequent wildlife contact networks. Local network metrics of connectivity were fairly robust to telemetry sampling, but global metrics were less so. These results can be used to strategically plan telemetry sampling of wildlife based on trade‐offs between network metrics, sampling limitations, and the target population’s spatial configuration.

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封面图片和发行信息

本月的封面显示了一只非洲雄性狮子（Panthera leo）摄于坦桑尼亚塞伦盖蒂国家公园。已经使用VHF和GPS遥测数据对狮子进行了研究，可以将其用于建立联系网络，以研究野生动物中传播的传染病。在他们的文章中，Gilbertson等人。研究了遥测采样限制的后果–记录位置的频率，以及跟踪的人口比例–在随后的野生动植物接触网络上。本地网络的连通性度量标准对遥测采样相当健壮，但全局度量标准则相对较小。这些结果可用于基于网络指标，采样限制和目标人群的空间配置之间的权衡取舍，策略性地规划野生动植物的遥测采样。