Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Physiological investigations of free-swimming cetaceans have, historically, been limited because of these animals' large body size and fully aquatic lifestyle (Block, 2005;Hooker et al., 2007;Ponganis, 2007).Recent developments in digital biologging devices have enabled direct measurements of some physiological parameters in free-swimming cetaceans (Czapanskiy et al., 2022;Goldbogen et al., 2019;T. M. Williams et al., 2017), but such investigations remain challenging due to constraints on the design and deployment of these devices.Our ability to measure physiological parameters in free-swimming cetaceans is critical to understanding how these species will respond to disturbance and environmental change.Therefore, development of novel methods to extract physiological information from biologging sensors can advance the fields of vertebrate physiology and conservation biology.
DOI: 10.21105/joss.07858
Author: Ashley M. Blawas
Institutions: Duke University, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life below water
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414990084