Accelerometer-derived activity correlates with volitional swimming speed in lake sturgeon (Acipenserfulvescens)

J.D. Thiem; J.W. Dawson; A.C. Gleiss; E.G. Martins; A. Haro; T. Castro-Santos; A.J. Danylchuk; R.P. Wilson; S.J. Cooke

doi:10.1139/cjz-2014-0271

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Accelerometer-derived activity correlates with volitional swimming speed in lake sturgeon (Acipenserfulvescens)

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Accelerometer-derived activity correlates with volitional swimming speed in lake sturgeon (Acipenserfulvescens)

J.D. Thiem, J.W. Dawson, A.C. Gleiss, E.G. Martins, A. Haro, T. Castro-Santos, A.J. Danylchuk, R.P. Wilson and S.J. Cooke

Canadian Journal of Zoology, Vol.93(8), pp.645-654

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2014-0271

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Abstract

Quantifying fine-scale locomotor behaviours associated with different activities is challenging for free-swimming fish. Biologging and biotelemetry tools can help address this problem. An open channel flume was used to generate volitional swimming speed (Us) estimates of cultured lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque, 1817) and these were paired with simultaneously recorded accelerometer-derived metrics of activity obtained from three types of data-storage tags. This study examined whether a predictive relationship could be established between four different activity metrics (tail-beat frequency (TBF), tail-beat acceleration amplitude (TBAA), overall dynamic body acceleration (ODBA), and vectorial dynamic body acceleration (VeDBA)) and the swimming speed of A. fulvescens. Volitional Us of sturgeon ranged from 0.48 to 2.70 m·s−1 (0.51–3.18 body lengths (BL)·s−1). Swimming speed increased linearly with all accelerometer-derived metrics, and when all tag types were combined, Us increased 0.46 BL·s−1 for every 1 Hz increase in TBF, and 0.94, 0.61, and 0.94 BL·s−1 for every 1g increase in TBAA, ODBA, and VeDBA, respectively. Predictive relationships varied among tag types and tag-specific parameter estimates of Us are presented for all metrics. This use of acceleration data-storage tags demonstrated their applicability for the field quantification of sturgeon swimming speed.

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Title: Accelerometer-derived activity correlates with volitional swimming speed in lake sturgeon (Acipenserfulvescens)
Authors/Creators: J.D. Thiem (Author/Creator) - Carleton University
J.W. Dawson (Author/Creator) - Carleton University
A.C. Gleiss (Author/Creator) - Pacific University Oregon
E.G. Martins (Author/Creator) - Carleton University
A. Haro (Author/Creator) - ITER
T. Castro-Santos (Author/Creator) - ITER
A.J. Danylchuk (Author/Creator) - University of Massachusetts Amherst
R.P. Wilson (Author/Creator) - Swansea University
S.J. Cooke (Author/Creator) - Carleton University
Publication Details: Canadian Journal of Zoology, Vol.93(8), pp.645-654
Identifiers: 991005540169807891
Murdoch Affiliation: Murdoch University
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Collaboration types: Domestic collaboration; International collaboration
Citation topics: 3 Agriculture, Environment & Ecology; 3.2 Marine Biology; 3.2.62 Freshwater Fish Ecology
Web Of Science research areas: Zoology
ESI research areas: Plant & Animal Science