Tri-Axial Dynamic Acceleration as a Proxy for Animal Energy Expenditure; Should We Be Summing Values or Calculating the Vector?
Lama Qasem; Antonia S. Cardew; Alexis Wilson; I.W. Griffiths; Lewis G. Halsey; Emily L. C. Shepard; Adrian C. Gleiss; Rory P. Wilson · 2012 · PLoS ONE
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Abstract
Dynamic body acceleration (DBA) has been used as a proxy for energy expenditure in logger-equipped animals, with researchers summing the acceleration (overall dynamic body acceleration--ODBA) from the three orthogonal axes of devices. The vector of the dynamic body acceleration (VeDBA) may be a better proxy so this study compared ODBA and VeDBA as proxies for rate of oxygen consumption using humans and 6 other species. Twenty-one humans on a treadmill ran at different speeds while equipped with two loggers, one in a straight orientation and the other skewed, while rate of oxygen consumption (V
Abstract by Lama Qasem; Antonia S. Cardew; Alexis Wilson; I.W. Griffiths; Lewis G. Halsey; Emily L. C. Shepard; Adrian C. Gleiss; Rory P. Wilson, PLoS ONE (2012) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0031187