INVESTIGADORES
GOMEZ LAICH Agustina Marta
artículos
Título:
Use of overall dynamic body acceleration for estimating energy expenditure in cormorants Does locomotion in different media affect relationships?
Autor/es:
AGUSTINA GÓMEZ LAICH; RORY P. WILSON; ADRIAN GLEISS; EMILY L.C.SHEPARD; FLAVIO QUINTANA
Revista:
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Referencias:
Año: 2011 vol. 399 p. 151 - 155
ISSN:
0022-0981
Resumen:
The way in which animals use and acquire energy is fundamental to their fi tness. Overall dynamic body
acceleration (ODBA) has recently been suggested as a new method for the determination of energy
expenditure in wild animals. Although the relationship between ODBA and energy expenditure has been
calibrated using gas-respirometry, it has only been validated for animals moving in a single medium. In this
work we examined whether the relationship between ODBA and energy expenditure varies between activity
types and in particular, how locomotion in different media affects the regressions using the Imperial
Cormorant Phalacrocorax atriceps as a model species. Regressing mean ODBA values for resting, diving and
walking periods on a single graph against mean power values, the mass-speci fi c power (W kg−1 ) was related
to ODBA via; Power=12.09+41.31 ODBA (r 2 =0.93). Although values for resting, walking and swimming all
fell close to a single linear fit, values for flight deviated substantially from this. The different relationships
found between locomotory types are discussed in terms of the muscle groups involved in each kind of
behavior.