Study
Aquatic animal telemetry: A panoramic window into the underwater world
Hussey, Nigel E.; Kessel, Steven T.; Aarestrup, Kim; Cooke, Steven J.; Cowley, Paul D.; Fisk, Aaron T.
Science, 2015
Reviews acoustic telemetry, pop-up satellite tags and receiver arrays, and the collaborative networks that make detections across large ocean areas possible.
- Studied in
- Animalia
- Sample size
- review of acoustic and satellite telemetry in aquatic animals
Water blocks the signals terrestrial tracking depends on, so aquatic tracking works either by recording and later transmitting, or by listening for tagged animals with fixed receiver arrays — which makes coverage a function of where receivers happen to be.
What it means
The authors' reading, and ours. Where they differ, that difference is the point.
How the authors put it
Aquatic movement data are shaped by array geography, and shared receiver networks are what turn local studies into ocean-scale pictures.
How NatureHQ reads it
The counterpart to the terrestrial review, and the reason NatureHQ is careful with marine route maps: an animal appears where there is a receiver, so a track through empty water is a gap in the array rather than an absence of animals.
- Methodological review; no single species result belongs to it.
- Detection coverage is uneven and improving, so older studies carry stronger geographic bias.
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Published by: American Association for the Advancement of SciencePublished in Science or Science Advances (AAAS).
doi.org/10.1126/science.1255642
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