The marine environment is changing, and until recently its sheer size and inaccessibility have hindered our ability to understand the impacts of these changes on biodiversity and species. In recent years, animal tracking has become incredibly sophisticated, revealing characteristics and behaviour in animals across the globe that we have not been able to see, let alone study, before.
Technological advances in biotelemetry make it possible to remotely monitor animals in the challenging marine environment: electronic tags can record the vast movements of species at oceanic scales and track extraordinary dives into the abyss. We reveal what this new information can tell us about key drivers of species distribution from the depths to shallow coastal waters; such as movements of individuals and communities, predator–prey interactions and social behaviour.
We will also discuss how data from telemetry technologies can and should be, but are not always, utilised to improve conservation management and marine spatial planning. In an age of ‘big data’ are marine ecology and conservation science collaborating enough?
Speakers
Dr Henri Weimerskirch, Director of Research CNRS, CEBC-CNRS
Dr Nicole Esteban, Swansea University
Dr David Jacoby, Zoological Society of London
Dr Matthew Witt, University of Exeter
Chaired by Dr David Curnick, Zoological Society of London
Find Agenda and Abstracts here
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The ZSL Library will be open to ZSL Fellows before the event and will offer a talk at 4.45pm on their special collections 'Art works and archives', with a Darwin theme this month! Please contact library@zsl.org, or click here for further information.
Attending this event
- This Science and Conservation Event is free to attend and booking is not required.
- Venue: Huxley Lecture Theatre, Main Meeting Rooms, ZSL London Zoo. See map.
- Underground – Camden Town Station; Nearest bus - no. 274
- Doors open at 5pm for a 6pm start.
- Seats are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
- A drinks reception for ZSL Fellows and their guests is held from 5 – 5:50pm. More information on ZSL Fellowship can be found here.
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