Biologging and biotelemetry: tools for understanding the lives and environments of marine animals

YY Watanabe, YP Papastamatiou - Annual Review of Animal …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Addressing important questions in animal ecology, physiology, and environmental science
often requires in situ information from wild animals. This difficulty is being overcome by …

Using tri-axial acceleration data to identify behavioral modes of free-ranging animals: general concepts and tools illustrated for griffon vultures

R Nathan, O Spiegel, S Fortmann-Roe… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Integrating biomechanics, behavior and ecology requires a mechanistic understanding of
the processes producing the movement of animals. This calls for contemporaneous …

Personal thermal comfort models with wearable sensors

S Liu, S Schiavon, HP Das, M Jin, CJ Spanos - Building and Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
A personal comfort model is an approach to thermal comfort modeling, for thermal
environmental design and control, that predicts an individual's thermal comfort response …

Estimates for energy expenditure in free‐living animals using acceleration proxies: A reappraisal

RP Wilson, L Börger, MD Holton… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is fundamentally important for many animal ecologists to quantify the costs of animal
activities, although it is not straightforward to do so. The recording of triaxial acceleration by …

Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior

DD Brown, R Kays, M Wikelski, R Wilson… - Animal Biotelemetry, 2013 - Springer
Behavior is an important mechanism of evolution and it is paid for through energy
expenditure. Nevertheless, field biologists can rarely observe animals for more than a …

Temporal niche partitioning as a novel mechanism promoting co-existence of sympatric predators in marine systems

KO Lear, NM Whitney, JJ Morris… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Niche partitioning of time, space or resources is considered the key to allowing the
coexistence of competitor species, and particularly guilds of predators. However, the extent …

Temperature dependence of fish performance in the wild: links with species biogeography and physiological thermal tolerance

NL Payne, JA Smith, DE van der Meulen… - Functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature strongly regulates the distribution and fitness of ectotherms, and many studies
have measured the temperature dependence of physiological performance in controlled …

Making overall dynamic body acceleration work: on the theory of acceleration as a proxy for energy expenditure

AC Gleiss, RP Wilson… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The energetic costs of different behaviours are critical in modulating the behavioural ecology
of free‐living animals. Despite this, measurement of energy expenditure in the field has …

Tri-axial dynamic acceleration as a proxy for animal energy expenditure; should we be summing values or calculating the vector?

L Qasem, A Cardew, A Wilson, I Griffiths, LG Halsey… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Dynamic body acceleration (DBA) has been used as a proxy for energy expenditure in
logger-equipped animals, with researchers summing the acceleration (overall dynamic body …

Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial accelerometry

ELC Shepard, RP Wilson, F Quintana… - Endangered species …, 2008 - int-res.com
An animal's behaviour is a response to its environment and physiological condition, and as
such, gives vital clues as to its well-being, which is highly relevant in conservation issues …