Animal-borne telemetry : an integral component of the ocean observing toolkit
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Harcourt, Rob
Sequeira, Ana M.M.
Zhang, Xuelei
Roquet, Fabien
Komatsu, Kosei
Heupel, Michelle
McMahon, Clive Reginald
Whoriskey, Fred
Meekan, Mark
Carroll, Gemma
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Frontiers Media
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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Ocean observing, Animal telemetry, Animal movement, Movement analysis, Essential ocean variable (EOV)
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Harcourt R, Sequeira AMM, Zhang X,
Roquet F, Komatsu K, Heupel M,
McMahon C, Whoriskey F, Meekan M,
Carroll G, Brodie S, Simpfendorfer C,
Hindell M, Jonsen I, Costa DP,
Block B, Muelbert M, Woodward B,
Weise M, Aarestrup K, Biuw M,
Boehme L, Bograd SJ, Cazau D,
Charrassin J-B, Cooke SJ, Cowley P,
de Bruyn PJN, Jeanniard du Dot T,
Duarte C, Eguíluz VM, Ferreira LC,
Fernández-Gracia J, Goetz K, Goto Y,
Guinet C, Hammill M, Hays GC,
Hazen EL, Hückstädt LA,
Huveneers C, Iverson S, Jaaman SA,
Kittiwattanawong K, Kovacs KM,
Lydersen C, Moltmann T, Naruoka M,
Phillips L, Picard B, Queiroz N,
Reverdin G, Sato K, Sims DW,
Thorstad EB, Thums M, Treasure AM,
Trites AW, Williams GD, Yonehara Y
and Fedak MA (2019) Animal-Borne
Telemetry: An Integral Component of
the Ocean Observing Toolkit.
Frontiers in Marine Science 6:326.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00326.