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Animal-borne telemetry: An integral component of the ocean observing toolkit

Animal-borne telemetry: An integral component of the ocean observing toolkit
Animal-borne telemetry: An integral component of the ocean observing toolkit

Animal telemetry is a powerful tool for observing marine animals and the physical environments that they inhabit, from coastal and continental shelf ecosystems to polar seas and open oceans. Satellite-linked biologgers and networks of acoustic receivers allow animals to be reliably monitored over scales of tens of meters to thousands of kilometers, giving insight into their habitat use, home range size, the phenology of migratory patterns and the biotic and abiotic factors that drive their distributions. Furthermore, physical environmental variables can be collected using animals as autonomous sampling platforms, increasing spatial and temporal coverage of global oceanographic observation systems. The use of animal telemetry, therefore, has the capacity to provide measures from a suite of essential ocean variables (EOVs) for improved monitoring of Earth's oceans. Here we outline the design features of animal telemetry systems, describe current applications and their benefits and challenges, and discuss future directions. We describe new analytical techniques that improve our ability to not only quantify animal movements but to also provide a powerful framework for comparative studies across taxa. We discuss the application of animal telemetry and its capacity to collect biotic and abiotic data, how the data collected can be incorporated into ocean observing systems, and the role these data can play in improved ocean management.

Animal movement, Animal telemetry, EOV, Movement analysis, Ocean observing
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Harcourt, Rob, Sequeira, Ana M.M., Zhang, Xuelei, Roquet, Fabien, Komatsu, Kosei, Heupel, Michelle, McMahon, Clive, Whoriskey, Fred, Meekan, Mark, Carroll, Gemma, Brodie, Stephanie, Simpfendorfer, Colin, Hindell, Mark, Jonsen, Ian, Costa, Daniel P., Block, Barbara, Muelbert, Mônica, Woodward, Bill, Weise, Mike, Aarestrup, Kim, Biuw, Martin, Boehme, Lars, Bograd, Steven J., Cazau, Dorian, Charrassin, Jean Benoit, Cooke, Steven J., Cowley, Paul, de Bruyn, P. J.Nico, Jeanniard du Dot, Tiphaine, Duarte, Carlos, Eguíluz, Víctor M., Ferreira, Luciana C., Fernández-Gracia, Juan, Goetz, Kimberly, Goto, Yusuke, Guinet, Christophe, Hammill, Mike, Hays, Graeme C., Hazen, Elliott L., Hückstädt, Luis A., Huveneers, Charlie, Iverson, Sara, Jaaman, Saifullah Arifin, Kittiwattanawong, Kongkiat, Kovacs, Kit M., Lydersen, Christian, Moltmann, Tim, Naruoka, Masaru, Phillips, Lachlan, Picard, Baptiste, Queiroz, Nuno, Reverdin, Gilles, Sato, Katsufumi, Sims, David W., Thorstad, Eva B., Thums, Michele, Treasure, Anne M., Trites, Andrew W., Williams, Guy D., Yonehara, Yoshinari and Fedak, Mike A. (2019) Animal-borne telemetry: An integral component of the ocean observing toolkit. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6 (JUN), [326]. (doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00326).

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Abstract

Animal telemetry is a powerful tool for observing marine animals and the physical environments that they inhabit, from coastal and continental shelf ecosystems to polar seas and open oceans. Satellite-linked biologgers and networks of acoustic receivers allow animals to be reliably monitored over scales of tens of meters to thousands of kilometers, giving insight into their habitat use, home range size, the phenology of migratory patterns and the biotic and abiotic factors that drive their distributions. Furthermore, physical environmental variables can be collected using animals as autonomous sampling platforms, increasing spatial and temporal coverage of global oceanographic observation systems. The use of animal telemetry, therefore, has the capacity to provide measures from a suite of essential ocean variables (EOVs) for improved monitoring of Earth's oceans. Here we outline the design features of animal telemetry systems, describe current applications and their benefits and challenges, and discuss future directions. We describe new analytical techniques that improve our ability to not only quantify animal movements but to also provide a powerful framework for comparative studies across taxa. We discuss the application of animal telemetry and its capacity to collect biotic and abiotic data, how the data collected can be incorporated into ocean observing systems, and the role these data can play in improved ocean management.

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Accepted/In Press date: 28 May 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 June 2019
Keywords: Animal movement, Animal telemetry, EOV, Movement analysis, Ocean observing

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Local EPrints ID: 432856
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/432856
ISSN: 2296-7745
PURE UUID: 2f8b80cb-e733-4b97-8b35-b36d3615d774
ORCID for David W. Sims: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0916-7363

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Date deposited: 31 Jul 2019 16:30
Last modified: 19 Jun 2024 01:45

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Author: Rob Harcourt
Author: Ana M.M. Sequeira
Author: Xuelei Zhang
Author: Fabien Roquet
Author: Kosei Komatsu
Author: Michelle Heupel
Author: Clive McMahon
Author: Fred Whoriskey
Author: Mark Meekan
Author: Gemma Carroll
Author: Stephanie Brodie
Author: Colin Simpfendorfer
Author: Mark Hindell
Author: Ian Jonsen
Author: Daniel P. Costa
Author: Barbara Block
Author: Mônica Muelbert
Author: Bill Woodward
Author: Mike Weise
Author: Kim Aarestrup
Author: Martin Biuw
Author: Lars Boehme
Author: Steven J. Bograd
Author: Dorian Cazau
Author: Jean Benoit Charrassin
Author: Steven J. Cooke
Author: Paul Cowley
Author: P. J.Nico de Bruyn
Author: Tiphaine Jeanniard du Dot
Author: Carlos Duarte
Author: Víctor M. Eguíluz
Author: Luciana C. Ferreira
Author: Juan Fernández-Gracia
Author: Kimberly Goetz
Author: Yusuke Goto
Author: Christophe Guinet
Author: Mike Hammill
Author: Graeme C. Hays
Author: Elliott L. Hazen
Author: Luis A. Hückstädt
Author: Charlie Huveneers
Author: Sara Iverson
Author: Saifullah Arifin Jaaman
Author: Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong
Author: Kit M. Kovacs
Author: Christian Lydersen
Author: Tim Moltmann
Author: Masaru Naruoka
Author: Lachlan Phillips
Author: Baptiste Picard
Author: Nuno Queiroz
Author: Gilles Reverdin
Author: Katsufumi Sato
Author: David W. Sims ORCID iD
Author: Eva B. Thorstad
Author: Michele Thums
Author: Anne M. Treasure
Author: Andrew W. Trites
Author: Guy D. Williams
Author: Yoshinari Yonehara
Author: Mike A. Fedak

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