Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research

HJ Williams, LA Taylor, S Benhamou… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The paradigm‐changing opportunities of biologging sensors for ecological research,
especially movement ecology, are vast, but the crucial questions of how best to match the …

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 …

Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial magnetometry

HJ Williams, MD Holton, ELC Shepard, N Largey… - Movement ecology, 2017 - Springer
Background Accelerometers are powerful sensors in many bio-logging devices, and are
increasingly allowing researchers to investigate the performance, behaviour, energy …

Dead-reckoning animal movements in R: a reappraisal using Gundog.Tracks

RM Gunner, MD Holton, MD Scantlebury… - Animal …, 2021 - Springer
Background Fine-scale data on animal position are increasingly enabling us to understand
the details of animal movement ecology and dead-reckoning, a technique integrating motion …

A comparison of techniques for classifying behavior from accelerometers for two species of seabird

A Patterson, HG Gilchrist, L Chivers… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The behavior of many wild animals remains a mystery, as it is difficult to quantify behavior of
species that cannot be easily followed throughout their daily or seasonal movements …

Quantifying behavior and life‐history events of an Arctic ungulate from year‐long continuous accelerometer data

M Chimienti, FM van Beest, LT Beumer… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bio‐logging technology is now the golden standard for assessing how individual animals
change their movement and behavior over time and space. Three‐dimensional …

Identifying livestock behavior patterns based on accelerometer dataset

DS Rodriguez-Baena, FA Gomez-Vela… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In large livestock farming it would be beneficial to be able to automatically detect behaviors
in animals. In fact, this would allow to estimate the health status of individuals, providing …

Movement patterns of large juvenile loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea: Ontogenetic space use in a small ocean basin

M Chimienti, MF Blasi, S Hochscheid - Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanisms that determine how, where, and when ontogenetic habitat shifts occur are
mostly unknown in wild populations. Differences in size and environmental characteristics of …

Advances in the application of high-resolution biologgers to elasmobranch fishes

NM Whitney, KO Lear, AC Gleiss… - … and applications for …, 2018 - books.google.com
Defined broadly, biologging is any collection of data from one or more sensors using an
animal-borne tag (Boyd et al., 2004; Hooker et al., 2007). This term can be applied to a wide …

Towards informed metrics for examining the role of human‐induced animal responses in tag studies on wild animals

RP Wilson, M Holton, VL Wilson, R Gunner… - Integrative …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Two prime issues can detrimentally affect animals that have been equipped with tags:(i) the
effect of the capture and restraint process; and (ii) the effect of the tag itself. This work …