A5040121024- Avian ecology and behavior
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
- Marine animal studies overview
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Sports Performance and Training
- High Altitude and Hypoxia
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Muscle metabolism and nutrition
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Dietary Effects on Health
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
University of Roehampton
2016-2025
Newcastle University
2021
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
2018
National Institute for Health Research
2012
University of Birmingham
2002-2008
Summary Time and energy are key currencies in animal ecology, judicious management of these is a primary focus for natural selection. At present, however, there only two main methods estimation rate expenditure the field, heart doubly labelled water, both which have been used with success; but also their limitations. The deployment data loggers that measure acceleration emerging as powerful tool quantifying behaviour free‐living animals. Given movement requires use energy, accelerometry...
ESR Endangered Species Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsSpecials 10:47-60 (2008) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00084 Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial accelerometry Emily L. C. Shepard1,*, Rory P. Wilson1, Flavio Quintana2, 3, Agustina Gómez Laich3, Nikolai Liebsch1, Diego A. Albareda4, Lewis G. Halsey5, Adrian Gleiss1, David T. Morgan1, Andrew E....
Dynamic body acceleration (DBA) has been used as a proxy for energy expenditure in logger-equipped animals, with researchers summing the (overall dynamic - ODBA) from three orthogonal axes of devices. The vector (VeDBA) may be better so this study compared ODBA and VeDBA proxies rate oxygen consumption using humans 6 other species. Twenty-one on treadmill ran at different speeds while equipped two loggers, one straight orientation skewed, () was recorded. Similar data were obtained animals...
The p-value has long been the figurehead of statistical analysis in biology, but its position is under threat. p now widely recognized as providing quite limited information about our data, and being easily misinterpreted. Many biologists are aware p's frailties, less clear how they might change way analyse their data response. This article highlights summarizes four broad approaches that augment or replace p-value, relatively straightforward to apply. First, you can your with confident it,...
Rates of aerobic metabolism vary considerably across evolutionary lineages, but little is known about the proximate and ultimate factors that generate maintain this variability. Using data for 131 teleost fish species, we performed a large-scale phylogenetic comparative analysis how interspecific variation in resting metabolic rates (RMRs) maximum (MMRs) related to several ecological morphological variables. Mass- temperature-adjusted RMR MMR are highly correlated along continuum spanning...
AB Aquatic Biology Contact the journal Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 4:235-241 (2008) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00104 Derivation of body motion appropriate smoothing acceleration data Emily L. C. Shepard1,*, Rory P. Wilson1, Lewis G. Halsey2, Flavio Quintana3, Agustina Gómez Laich3, Adrian Gleiss1, Nikolai Liebsch1, Andrew E. Myers4, Brad Norman5 1Biological Sciences, Institute Environmental...
The oxygen store/usage hypothesis suggests that larger animals are able to dive for longer and hence deeper because storage scales isometrically with body mass, whereas usage allometrically an exponent <1 (typically 0.67–0.75). Previous tests of the allometry diving tend reject this hypothesis, but they based on restricted data sets or invalid statistical analyses (which assume every species provides independent information). Here we apply information‐theoretic methods phylogenetically...
Measurement of acceleration can be a proxy for energy expenditure during movement. The variable overall dynamic body (ODBA), used in recent studies, combines the elements recorded all three dimensions to measure and hence due However, simplicity ODBA affords it limitations. Furthermore, while accelerometry data loggers enable measures stored, recording at high frequencies represents limit deployment periods as result logger memory and/or battery exhaustion. Using bantam chickens walking...
Abstract The tortuosity of the track taken by an animal searching for food profoundly affects search efficiency, which should be optimised to maximise net energy gain. Models examining this generally describe movement as a series straight steps interspaced turns, and implicitly assume no turn costs. We used both empirical‐ modelling‐based approaches show that energetic costs turns in terrestrial aerial locomotion are substantial, calls into question value conventional models such correlated...
SUMMARY Several methods have been used to estimate the energy expenditure of free-ranging animals. A relatively new technique uses measures dynamic body acceleration as a calibrated proxy for and has proved an excellent predictor in active However, some animals can spend much their time inactive still expend at varying rates range physiological processes. We tested utility during (locomotion, eating) (digesting, thermoregulating)behaviours exhibited by domestic chickens. also compared this...
Understanding the impacts of activity on energy balance is crucial. Increasing levels may bring diminishing returns in expenditure because compensatory responses non-activity expenditures.1Pontzer H. Durazo-Arvizu R. Dugas L.R. Plange-Rhule J. Bovet P. Forrester T.E. Lambert E.V. Cooper R.S. Schoeller D.A. Luke A. Constrained total and metabolic adaptation to physical adult humans.Curr. Biol. 2016; 26: 410-417Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (145) Google Scholar, 2Halsey L.G. The mystery...
It is a well-known and widely lamented fact that men outnumber women in number of fields STEM (science, technology, engineering maths). The most commonly discussed explanations for the gender gaps are discrimination socialization, common policy prescriptions target those ostensible causes. However, great deal evidence behavioural sciences suggests socialization only part story. purpose this paper to highlight other aspects story: overlooked or downplayed. More precisely, has two main aims....
Water is essential for survival, but one in three individuals worldwide (2.2 billion people) lacks access to safe drinking water. intake requirements largely reflect water turnover (WT), the used by body each day. We investigated determinants of human WT 5604 people from ages 8 days 96 years 23 countries using isotope-tracking (
Blue mussels Mytilus edulis (n = 14) were studied in the laboratory using Hall sensor systems to record their gaping behaviour when exposed varying food rations and levels of predation risk. Mussel response increasing daily algal ration was increase mean gape angle per day associated with copious pseudofaeces production at excessive initial concentrations, e.g. 250 cells/µl. Mean decreased (backward S-shaped curve) fed a fixed where simulated risk (introduced fresh mussel homogenate)...