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Maximizing biological insights from instruments attached to animals

Maximizing biological insights from instruments attached to animals
Maximizing biological insights from instruments attached to animals

Instruments attached to animals (‘biologgers’) have facilitated extensive discoveries about the patterns, causes, and consequences of animal behavior. Here, we present examples of how biologging can deepen our fundamental understanding of ecosystems and our applied understanding of global change impacts by enabling tests of ecological theory. Applying the iterative process of science to biologging has enabled a diverse set of insights, including social and experiential learning in long-distance migrants, state-dependent risk aversion in foraging predators, and resource abundance driving movement across taxa. Now, biologging is poised to tackle questions and refine ecological theories at increasing levels of complexity by integrating measurements from numerous individuals, merging datasets from multiple species and their environments, and spanning disciplines, including physiology, behavior and demography.

animal movement, biologgers, ecological questions, movement ecology, theory
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Beltran, Roxanne S., Kilpatrick, A. Marm and Picardi, Simona , et al. (2024) Maximizing biological insights from instruments attached to animals. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.009).

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Abstract

Instruments attached to animals (‘biologgers’) have facilitated extensive discoveries about the patterns, causes, and consequences of animal behavior. Here, we present examples of how biologging can deepen our fundamental understanding of ecosystems and our applied understanding of global change impacts by enabling tests of ecological theory. Applying the iterative process of science to biologging has enabled a diverse set of insights, including social and experiential learning in long-distance migrants, state-dependent risk aversion in foraging predators, and resource abundance driving movement across taxa. Now, biologging is poised to tackle questions and refine ecological theories at increasing levels of complexity by integrating measurements from numerous individuals, merging datasets from multiple species and their environments, and spanning disciplines, including physiology, behavior and demography.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 28 October 2024
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s)
Keywords: animal movement, biologgers, ecological questions, movement ecology, theory

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/496135
ISSN: 0169-5347
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Last modified: 06 Dec 2024 03:03

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Author: Roxanne S. Beltran
Author: A. Marm Kilpatrick
Author: Simona Picardi
Author: Briana Abrahms
Author: Gabriel M. Barrile
Author: William K. Oestreich
Author: Justine A. Smith
Author: Max F. Czapanskiy
Author: Arina B. Favilla
Author: Jessica M. Kendall-Bar
Author: Allison R. Payne
Author: Matthew S. Savoca
Author: Danial G. Palance
Author: Samantha Andrzejaczek
Author: Daphne M. Shen
Author: Taiki Adachi
Author: Daniel P. Costa
Author: Natalie A. Storm
Author: Conner M. Hale
Author: Patrick W. Robinson
Corporate Author: et al.

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