Biologging Instrument Impact Review

A minimum reporting standard to promote animal welfare and data quality in biologging research
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The first chapter of my dissertation is a broad, comprehensive review of the impacts of biologging instruments and the implications for animal welfare and data quality.

Read the preprint here.

View the minimum reporting standard for instrument characteristics here.

Figure 1. Sample instrument characteristics that would be useful to document and report with biologging manuscripts include size, mass, sensors, orientation, material, cross-sectional shape, and attachment/detachment method. Animal and data characteristics are also helpful to report.