Abstract
Electronic tags are significantly improving our understanding of aquatic animal behavior and are emerging as key sources of information for conservation and management practices. Future aquatic integrative biology and ecology studies will increasingly rely on data from electronic tagging. Continued advances in tracking hardware and software are needed to provide the knowledge required by managers and policymakers to address the challenges posed by the world's changing aquatic ecosystems. We foresee multiplatform tracking systems for simultaneously monitoring the position, activity, and physiology of animals and the environment through which they are moving. Improved data collection will be accompanied by greater data accessibility and analytical tools for processing data, enabled by new infrastructure and cyberinfrastructure. To operationalize advances and facilitate integration into policy, there must be parallel developments in the accessibility of education and training, as well as solutions to key governance and legal issues.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 884-896 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | BioScience |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 1 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Financial and logistical support for this work were provided to the Ocean Tracking Network’s Canadian and International Scientific Advisory Committee and the IdeasOTN synthesis working group through funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Several authors are also supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences