Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 217, Issue 3, Pages 317-322Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.093922
Keywords
Acoustic telemetry; Energetics; Hypoxia; Logger; Penguin; Scaling; Seal; Shark; Stroke frequency; Temperature
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- Australian Research Council Linkage Grant [LP100100367]
- Australian Research Council [LP100100367] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [13F03749, 25850138] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The remote measurement of data from free-ranging animals has been termed 'biologging' and in recent years this relatively small set of tools has been instrumental in addressing remarkably diverse questions -from 'how will tuna respond to climate change?' to 'why are whales big?'. While a single biologging dataset can have the potential to test hypotheses spanning physiology, ecology, evolution and theoretical physics, explicit illustrations of this flexibility are scarce and this has arguably hindered the full realization of the power of biologging tools. Here we present a small set of examples from studies that have collected data on two parameters widespread in biologging research (depth and acceleration), but that have interpreted their data in the context of extremely diverse phenomena: from tests of biomechanical and diving-optimality models to identifications of feeding events, Levy flight foraging strategies and expanding oxygen minimum zones. We use these examples to highlight the remarkable flexibility of biologging tools, and identify several mechanisms that may enhance the scope and dissemination of future biologging research programs.
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