Vinay Udyawer, Charlie Huveneers, Fabrice Jaine, Russell C Babcock, Stephanie Brodie, Marie-Jeanne Buscot, Hamish A Campbell, Robert G Harcourt, Xavier Hoenner, Elodie J I Lédée, Colin A Simpfendorfer, Matthew D Taylor, Asia Armstrong, Adam Barnett, Culum Brown, Barry Bruce, Paul A Butcher, Gwenael Cadiou, Lydie I E Couturier, Leanne Currey-Randall, Michael Drew, Christine L Dudgeon, Ross G Dwyer, Mario Espinoza, Luciana C Ferreira, Anthony Fowler, David Harasti, Alastair R Harborne, Nathan A Knott, Kate Lee, Matt Lloyd, Michael Lowry, Teagan Marzullo, Jordan Matley, Jaime D McAllister, Rory McAuley, Frazer McGregor, Mark Meekan, Kade Mills, Bradley M Norman, Beverly Oh, Nicholas L Payne, Vic Peddemors, Toby Piddocke, Richard D Pillans, Richard D Reina, Paul Rogers, Jayson M Semmens, Amy Smoothey, Conrad W Speed, Dylan van der Meulen, Michelle R Heupel
AbstractUnifying models have shown that the amount of space used by animals (e.g., activity space, home range) scales allometrically with body mass for terrestrial taxa; however, such relationships are far less clear for marine species. We compiled movement data from 1,596 individuals across 79 taxa collected using a continental passive acoustic telemetry network of acoustic receivers to assess allometric scaling of activity space. We found that ectothermic marine taxa do exhibit allometric scaling for activity space, with an overall scaling exponent of 0...
April 2023: American Naturalist