Biologging Explained

Biologging is the use of tags attached to animals to record aspects of their behaviour, physiology or environment.

Description

Often this can just be the location of the animal, e.g. GPS animal tracking but typically has a focus on learning about other features besides the animal's location.^{[1] [2]}

Many sensor types can be used, for example temperature,^[3] accelerometers^[4] or microphones.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Börger . Luca . Bijleveld . Allert I. . Fayet . Annette L. . Machovsky-Capuska . Gabriel E. . Patrick . Samantha C. . Street . Garrett M. . Vander Wal . Eric . Biologging Special Feature . Journal of Animal Ecology . January 2020 . 89 . 1 . 6–15 . 10.1111/1365-2656.13163 . 32091640 . 2020JAnEc..89....6B .
2. Williams . Hannah J. . Taylor . Lucy A. . Benhamou . Simon . Bijleveld . Allert I. . Clay . Thomas A. . de Grissac . Sophie . Demšar . Urška . English . Holly M. . Franconi . Novella . Gómez-Laich . Agustina . Griffiths . Rachael C. . Kay . William P. . Morales . Juan Manuel . Potts . Jonathan R. . Rogerson . Katharine F. . Rutz . Christian . Spelt . Anouk . Trevail . Alice M. . Wilson . Rory P. . Börger . Luca . Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research . Journal of Animal Ecology . January 2020 . 89 . 1 . 186–206 . 10.1111/1365-2656.13094 . 31424571 . 7041970 . 2020JAnEc..89..186W .
3. Rey . Benjamin . Halsey . Lewis G. . Hetem . Robyn S. . Fuller . Andrea . Mitchell . Duncan . Rouanet . Jean-Louis . Estimating resting metabolic rate by biologging core and subcutaneous temperature in a mammal . Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology . May 2015 . 183 . 72–77 . 10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.01.012 . 25636902 .
4. Brownscombe . Jw . Gutowsky . Lfg . Danylchuk . Aj . Cooke . Sj . Foraging behaviour and activity of a marine benthivorous fish estimated using tri-axial accelerometer biologgers . Marine Ecology Progress Series . 28 May 2014 . 505 . 241–251 . 10.3354/meps10786 . 2014MEPS..505..241B .
5. Thiebault . Andréa . Pistorius . Pierre . Mullers . Ralf . Tremblay . Yann . Seabird acoustic communication at sea: a new perspective using bio-logging devices . Scientific Reports . 5 August 2016 . 6 . 1 . 30972 . 10.1038/srep30972 . 27492779 . 4974508 . 2016NatSR...630972T .