Dramatic effect of pop-up satellite tags on eel swimming

The journey of the European eel to the spawning area in the Sargasso Sea is still a mystery. Several trials have been carried out to follow migrating eels with pop-up satellite tags (PSATs), without much success. As eels are very efficient swimmers, tags likely interfere with their high swimming eff...

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Autores principales: Burgerhout, Erik, Manabe, Ryotaro, Brittijn, Sebastiaan A., Aoyama, Jun, Tsukamoto, Katsumi, van den Thillart, Guido E. E. J. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2011
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21594613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-011-0805-0
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author Burgerhout, Erik
Manabe, Ryotaro
Brittijn, Sebastiaan A.
Aoyama, Jun
Tsukamoto, Katsumi
van den Thillart, Guido E. E. J. M.
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description The journey of the European eel to the spawning area in the Sargasso Sea is still a mystery. Several trials have been carried out to follow migrating eels with pop-up satellite tags (PSATs), without much success. As eels are very efficient swimmers, tags likely interfere with their high swimming efficiency. Here we report a more than twofold increase in swimming cost caused by a regular small satellite tag. The impact was determined at a range of swimming speeds with and without tag in a 2-m swimming tunnel. These results help to explain why the previous use of PSATs to identify spawning sites in the Sargasso Sea was thus far unsuccessful.
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spelling pubmed-31219372011-07-14 Dramatic effect of pop-up satellite tags on eel swimming Burgerhout, Erik Manabe, Ryotaro Brittijn, Sebastiaan A. Aoyama, Jun Tsukamoto, Katsumi van den Thillart, Guido E. E. J. M. Naturwissenschaften Short Communication The journey of the European eel to the spawning area in the Sargasso Sea is still a mystery. Several trials have been carried out to follow migrating eels with pop-up satellite tags (PSATs), without much success. As eels are very efficient swimmers, tags likely interfere with their high swimming efficiency. Here we report a more than twofold increase in swimming cost caused by a regular small satellite tag. The impact was determined at a range of swimming speeds with and without tag in a 2-m swimming tunnel. These results help to explain why the previous use of PSATs to identify spawning sites in the Sargasso Sea was thus far unsuccessful. Springer-Verlag 2011-05-19 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3121937/ /pubmed/21594613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-011-0805-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Dramatic effect of pop-up satellite tags on eel swimming
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