Animal activity monitoring system for the laboratory and field

实验室和野外动物活动监测系统

• 批准号: 390062-2010
• 负责人: Cooke, Steven
• 金额: $ 1.61万
• 依托单位: Carleton University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=443094
• 关键词: Animal; activity; monitoring; system; laboratory

To effectively mount an interdisciplinary field- and laboratory-based research programme at the interface of animal behaviour, physiology, and ecology, it is essential to have a suite of tools that enable the remote study of animals. To support and expand our research programmes, we are requesting a Remote Animal Activity Monitoring System for use on fish and aquatic herpetefauna. The system will use passive integrated transponder technology. A passive integrated transponder (PIT) tag consists of an integrated circuit chip and coil antenna which, when energized by a low-radio frequency reader coil, transmits a unique identity code. Having no battery, the tags are small, inexpensive, and do not have battery life limitations. Consequently, PIT tagging offers opportunities for identifying individuals at a scale approaching that of the population, something that is rarely achievable for other telemetry methods, for economic reasons. PIT technology has become an important tool for studying animal movement using PIT arrays in the field in systems as diverse as streams, experimental ponds and mesocosms, all systems frequently used by the research team. Several of the co-applicants also conduct applied conservation research on topics such as by-catch reduction of fish and turtles and fish passage evaluation at barriers, all of which will benefit from this technology. Also relevant for the application is the fact that the activity monitoring system is modular so that it can also be used in the wetlabs at both Carleton and uOttawa. In the laboratory the PIT technology would provide an additional dimension to comparative physiology studies by enabling the quantification of fish activity and behaviour, something that has been difficult to achieve to date. The seven co-applicants (from the Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology) involved in this RTI application have varied and overlapping interests in the fields of ecology, behaviour, and physiology with a focus on aquatic animals. The co-applicants currently collaborate on a number of projects, but the proposed research tools will increase our capacity for collaborative interdisciplinary research and the training of the next generation of integrative biologists.

为了在动物行为，生理学和生态学的界面上有效地安装跨学科的现场和实验室研究计划，必须拥有一套能够远程研究动物的工具。 为了支持和扩大我们的研究方案，我们正在请求建立一个用于鱼类和水生爬行动物的远程动物活动监测系统。 该系统将采用无源集成转发器技术。 无源集成转发器（PIT）标签由集成电路芯片和线圈天线组成，当由低射频阅读器线圈激励时，发送唯一的身份代码。由于没有电池，标签体积小，价格便宜，并且没有电池寿命限制。 因此，PIT标记提供了在接近人口的规模上识别个体的机会，出于经济原因，这对于其他遥测方法来说是很少能够实现的。 PIT技术已成为研究动物运动的重要工具，使用PIT阵列在不同的系统，如溪流，实验池塘和围隔生态系统中进行实地研究，研究团队经常使用所有系统。 几个共同申请者还就减少鱼类和海龟的副渔获物以及障碍物处鱼类通过评估等专题进行应用养护研究，所有这些研究都将受益于这一技术。 与应用相关的另一个事实是，活动监测系统是模块化的，因此它也可以在卡尔顿和uOttawa的湿实验室中使用。 在实验室中，PIT技术将通过量化鱼类活动和行为为比较生理学研究提供额外的维度，这是迄今为止难以实现的。 参与RTI申请的七名共同申请人（来自渥太华-卡尔顿生物研究所）在生态学，行为学和生理学领域具有不同和重叠的兴趣，重点是水生动物。 共同申请人目前在许多项目上进行合作，但拟议的研究工具将提高我们进行跨学科合作研究和培养下一代综合生物学家的能力。