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A miniaturized threshold-triggered acceleration data-logger for recording burst movements of aquatic animals

Nozomi Nishiumi, Ayane Matsuo, View ORCID ProfileRyo Kawabe, View ORCID ProfileNicholas Payne, View ORCID ProfileCharlie Huveneers, View ORCID ProfileYuuki Y. Watanabe, Yuuki Kawabata
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/203828
Nozomi Nishiumi
1Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyomachi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
2Institute for East China Sea Research, Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1551-7 Tairamachi, Nagasaki 851-2213, Japan
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Ayane Matsuo
1Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyomachi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
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Ryo Kawabe
2Institute for East China Sea Research, Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1551-7 Tairamachi, Nagasaki 851-2213, Japan
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Nicholas Payne
3University of Roehampton, Holybourne Avenue, London, SW15 4JD, United Kingdom
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Charlie Huveneers
4College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, South Australia, 5042, Australia
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Yuuki Y. Watanabe
5National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
6SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
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Yuuki Kawabata
1Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyomachi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
2Institute for East China Sea Research, Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1551-7 Tairamachi, Nagasaki 851-2213, Japan
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Animal-borne accelerometers are effective tools for quantifying the kinematics of animal behaviors, such as swimming, running, and flying, under natural conditions. However, quantifying burst movements of small and agile aquatic animals (e.g., small teleost fish), such as during predatory behavior, or while fleeing, remains challenging. To capture the details of burst movements, accelerometers need to sample at a very high frequency, which will inevitably shorten the duration of the recording or increase the size of the device. To overcome this problem, we developed a high-frequency acceleration data-logger that can be triggered by a manually-defined acceleration threshold, thus allowing the selective measurement of animal burst movements. We conducted experiments under laboratory and field conditions to examine the performance of the logger. The laboratory experiment using red seabream (Pagrus major) showed that the new logger could measure the kinematics of their escape behaviors (i.e., body beat cycles and maximum acceleration values). The field experiment using free-swimming yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) showed that the loggers trigger correctly (i.e., of the 18 burst movements, 17 were recorded by the loggers). We suggest that this new logger can be applied to measure the burst movements of various small and agile animals, whose movements may be otherwise difficult to measure.

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A miniaturized threshold-triggered acceleration data-logger for recording burst movements of aquatic animals
Nozomi Nishiumi, Ayane Matsuo, Ryo Kawabe, Nicholas Payne, Charlie Huveneers, Yuuki Y. Watanabe, Yuuki Kawabata
bioRxiv 203828; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/203828
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A miniaturized threshold-triggered acceleration data-logger for recording burst movements of aquatic animals
Nozomi Nishiumi, Ayane Matsuo, Ryo Kawabe, Nicholas Payne, Charlie Huveneers, Yuuki Y. Watanabe, Yuuki Kawabata
bioRxiv 203828; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/203828

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