ArticleScientific reports2020
Acceleration predicts energy expenditure in a fat, flightless, diving bird.
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- Sweat the small stuff: A review of the use of accelerometers to estimate energy expenditure in wild animals.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Review
- Plunge-diving into dynamic body acceleration and energy expenditure in the Peruvian booby.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Time-energy budgets outperform dynamic body acceleration in predicting daily energy expenditure in kittiwakes, and estimate a very low cost of gliding flight relative to flapping flight.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Determining energy expenditure in a large seabird using accelerometry.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Holding time has limited impact on constitutive innate immune function in a long-lived Antarctic seabird, the Adélie penguin: implications for field studies.Biology open · 2023Article
- The role of individual variability on the predictive performance of machine learning applied to large bio-logging datasets.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Heart rate as a proxy for estimating oxygen consumption rates in loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta).Biology open · 2022Article
- Validating accelerometry-derived proxies of energy expenditure using the doubly labelled water method in the smallest penguin species.Biology open · 2021Article
- Inferring Whole-Organism Metabolic Rate From Red Blood Cells in Birds.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- The New Era of Physio-Logging and Their Grand Challenges.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Energy drives behaviour and life history decisions, yet it can be hard to measure at fine scales in free-moving animals. Accelerometry has proven a powerful tool to estimate energy expenditure, but requires calibration in the wild. This can be difficult in some environments, or for particular behaviours, and validations have produced equivocal results in some species, particularly air-breathing divers. It is, therefore, important to calibrate accelerometry across different behaviours to understand the most parsimonious way to estimate energy expenditure in free-living conditions. Here, we combine data from miniaturised acceleration loggers on 58 free-living Adélie penguins with doubly labelled water (DLW) measurements of their energy expenditure over several days. Across different behaviours, both in water and on land, dynamic body acceleration was a good predictor of independently measured DLW-derived energy expenditure (R
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