ArticleBiology open2021
Validating accelerometry-derived proxies of energy expenditure using the doubly labelled water method in the smallest penguin species.
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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
- Mechanical Running Power and Energy Expenditure in Uphill and Downhill Running.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- 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
- The role of individual variability on the predictive performance of machine learning applied to large bio-logging datasets.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Quantity over quality? Prey-field characteristics influence the foraging decisions of little penguins (Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Understanding energy use is central to understanding an animal's physiological and behavioural ecology. However, directly measuring energy expenditure in free-ranging animals is inherently difficult. The doubly labelled water (DLW) method is widely used to investigate energy expenditure in a range of taxa. Although reliable, DLW data collection and analysis is both financially costly and time consuming. Dynamic body acceleration (e.g. VeDBA) calculated from animal-borne accelerometers has been used to determine behavioural patterns, and is increasingly being used as a proxy for energy expenditure. Still its performance as a proxy for energy expenditure in free-ranging animals is not well established and requires validation against established methods. In the present study, the relationship between VeDBA and the at-sea metabolic rate calculated from DLW was investigated in little penguins (
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