Diving physiology of marine mammals and birds: the development of biologging techniques

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Williams, Cassondra L., Ponganis, Paul J.
• Other Authors: National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2021
• Subjects: Scholander; Emperor penguins
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0211; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.2020.0211; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rstb.2020.0211

In the 1940s, Scholander and Irving revealed fundamental physiological responses to forced diving of marine mammals and birds, setting the stage for the study of diving physiology. Since then, diving physiology research has moved from the laboratory to the field. Modern biologging, with the developm...