Boyd I.L.

Butler B.J.

Butler P.J.

Costa D.P.

Jeanniard du Dot T.

Lavigne D.M.

Sayers K.

Sinnott R.W.

Speakman J.R

Speakman J.R.

Ward S.

Yoda K.

Functional Ecology

English

International audience1. Energy expenditure is an important component of foraging ecology, but is extremely difficultto estimate in free-ranging animals and depends on how animals partition their timebetween different activities during foraging. Acceleration data have emerged as a new way todetermine energy expenditure at a fine scale but this needs to be tested and validated in wildanimals.2. This study investigated whether vectorial dynamic body acceleration (VeDBA) could accuratelypredict the energy expended by marine predators during a full foraging trip. We alsoaimed to determine whether the accuracy of predictions of energy expenditure derived fromacceleration increased when partitioned by different types of at-sea activities (i.e. diving, transiting,resting and surface activities).3. To do so, we equipped 20 lactating northern (Callorhinus ursinus) and 20 lactating Antarcticfur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) with GPS, time-depth recorders and tri-axial accelerometersand obtained estimates of field metabolic rates using the doubly labelled water (DLW)method. VeDBA was derived from tri-axial acceleration, and at-sea activities (diving, transiting,resting and surface activities) were determined using dive depth, tri-axial acceleration andtravelling speed.4. We found that VeDBA did not accurately predict the total energy expended by fur sealsduring their full foraging trips (R2 = 036). However, the accuracy of VeDBA as a predictorof total energy expenditure increased significantly when foraging trips were partitioned byactivity and when activity-specific VeDBA was paired with time-activity budgets (R2 = 070).Activity-specific VeDBA also accurately predicted the energy expenditures of each activityindependent of each other (R2 > 085).5. Our study confirms that acceleration is a promising way to estimate energy expenditures offree-ranging marine mammals at a fine scale never attained before. However, it shows that itneeds to be based on the time-activity budgets that make up foraging trips rather than beingderived as a single measure of VeDBA applied to entire foraging trips. Our activity-basedmethod provides a cost-effective means to accurately calculate energy expenditures of fur sealsusing acceleration and time-activity budgets, that can be transfered to studies on other species

Jeanniard-du-Dot, Tiphaine

Guinet, Christophe

Arnould, John P.Y.

Speakman, John R

Trites, Andrew W.

Archive Ouverte en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication

Accelerometers can measure total and activity-specific energy expenditures in free-ranging marine mammals only if linked to time-activity budgets

Energy expenditure is an important component of foraging ecology, but is extremely difficult to estimate in free-ranging animals and depends on how animals partition their time between different activities during foraging. Acceleration data have emerged as a new way to determine energy expenditure at a fine scale but this needs to be tested and validated in wild animals.
            This study investigated whether vectorial dynamic body acceleration (VeDBA) could accurately predict the energy expended by marine predators during a full foraging trip. We also aimed to determine whether the accuracy of predictions of energy expenditure derived from acceleration increased when partitioned by different types of at-sea activities (i.e. diving, transiting, resting and surface activities).
            To do so, we equipped 20 lactating northern (Callorhinus ursinus) and 20 lactating Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) with GPS, time-depth recorders and tri-axial accelerometers and obtained estimates of field metabolic rates using the doubly labelled water (DLW) method. VeDBA was derived from tri-axial acceleration, and at-sea activities (diving, transiting, resting and surface activities) were determined using dive depth, tri-axial acceleration and travelling speed.
            We found that VeDBA did not accurately predict the total energy expended by fur seals during their full foraging trips (R2 = 0·36). However, the accuracy of VeDBA as a predictor of total energy expenditure increased significantly when foraging trips were partitioned by activity and when activity-specific VeDBA was paired with time-activity budgets (R2 = 0·70). Activity-specific VeDBA also accurately predicted the energy expenditures of each activity independent of each other (R2 > 0·85).
            Our study confirms that acceleration is a promising way to estimate energy expenditures of free-ranging marine mammals at a fine scale never attained before. However, it shows that it needs to be based on the time-activity budgets that make up foraging trips rather than being derived as a single measure of VeDBA applied to entire foraging trips. Our activity-based method provides a cost-effective means to accurately calculate energy expenditures of fur seals using acceleration and time-activity budgets, that can be transfered to studies on other species

Arnould, John P. Y.

Speakman, John R.

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Energy expenditure is an important component of foraging ecology, but is extremely difficult to estimate in free-ranging animals and depends on how animals partition their time between different activities during foraging. Acceleration data have emerged as a new way to determine energy expenditure at a fine scale but this needs to be tested and validated in wild animals.
This study investigated whether vectorial dynamic body acceleration (VeDBA) could accurately predict the energy expended by marine predators during a full foraging trip. We also aimed to determine whether the accuracy of predictions of energy expenditure derived from acceleration increased when partitioned by different types of at-sea activities (i.e. diving, transiting, resting and surface activities).
To do so, we equipped 20 lactating northern (Callorhinus ursinus) and 20 lactating Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) with GPS, time-depth recorders and tri-axial accelerometers and obtained estimates of field metabolic rates using the doubly labelled water (DLW) method. VeDBA was derived from tri-axial acceleration, and at-sea activities (diving, transiting, resting and surface activities) were determined using dive depth, tri-axial acceleration and travelling speed.
We found that VeDBA did not accurately predict the total energy expended by fur seals during their full foraging trips (R2 = 0·36). However, the accuracy of VeDBA as a predictor of total energy expenditure increased significantly when foraging trips were partitioned by activity and when activity-specific VeDBA was paired with time-activity budgets (R2 = 0·70). Activity-specific VeDBA also accurately predicted the energy expenditures of each activity independent of each other (R2 > 0·85).
Our study confirms that acceleration is a promising way to estimate energy expenditures of free-ranging marine mammals at a fine scale never attained before. However, it shows that it needs to be based on the time-activity budgets that make up foraging trips rather than being derived as a single measure of VeDBA applied to entire foraging trips. Our activity-based method provides a cost-effective means to accurately calculate energy expenditures of fur seals using acceleration and time-activity budgets, that can be transfered to studies on other species

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Trites, Andrew

The Open University

Tiphaine Jeanniard‐du‐Dot

Christophe Guinet

John P.Y. Arnould

John R. Speakman

Andrew W. Trites

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Accelerometers can measure total and activity-specific energy expenditures in free-ranging marine mammals only if linked to time-activity budgets

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