Flights of drones over sub-Antarctic seabirds show species- and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses
International audience Drones and unmanned aerial vehicles are increasingly used in research on wildlife. Their wide applications can also give interesting insights into habitat use and population distribution. However, the disturbance they might be responsible for, on species and especially in prot...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-01572348v1 2023-05-15T13:32:58+02:00 Flights of drones over sub-Antarctic seabirds show species- and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses Weimerskirch, Henri Prudor, Aurélien Schull, Quentin Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC) Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2018 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01572348 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2187-z en eng HAL CCSD Springer Verlag info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00300-017-2187-z hal-01572348 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01572348 doi:10.1007/s00300-017-2187-z ISSN: 0722-4060 EISSN: 1432-2056 Polar Biology https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01572348 Polar Biology, Springer Verlag, 2018, 41 (2), pp.259-266. ⟨10.1007/s00300-017-2187-z⟩ UAV Albatrosses Petrels Penguins Disturbance Altitude [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2018 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2187-z 2021-11-07T03:47:04Z International audience Drones and unmanned aerial vehicles are increasingly used in research on wildlife. Their wide applications can also give interesting insights into habitat use and population distribution. However, the disturbance they might be responsible for, on species and especially in protected areas has yet to be investigated. We assessed and compared the behavioural response of 11 southern seabird species at the Crozet Islands, Southern Indian Ocean, to drone approaches at specific altitudes. We first show that the behavioural response differed between species depending on the altitude of the drone approach. At 50 m of altitude, only one of the studied species showed a detectable reaction, whereas at 10 m, most species showed strong behavioural postures of stress. Adult penguins breeding in large colonies, and some albatross species showed little behavioural response even when the drone was as close as 3 m, whereas other species such as giant petrels or cormorants appeared highly sensitive to drone approaches. Among King Penguins, although incubating adults showed little signs of behavioural stress, non-breeding adults and fledglings in crèches exhibited strong behavioural responses to the drone approach. Monitoring heart rate allowed us to investigate the link between behavioural and physiological response to that specific potential stressor in king penguins. Whereas we confirmed the expected link between physiological and behavioural response in chicks, breeding adults showed no behavioural sign of stress but had a significant increase in heart rate, the relative increase being higher than in chicks. All together these results have important implications for the conservation of species and should be helpful for future legislations on the use of drones. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Crozet Islands Giant Petrels King Penguins Polar Biology Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Antarctic Indian Polar Biology 41 2 259 266 |
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International audience Drones and unmanned aerial vehicles are increasingly used in research on wildlife. Their wide applications can also give interesting insights into habitat use and population distribution. However, the disturbance they might be responsible for, on species and especially in protected areas has yet to be investigated. We assessed and compared the behavioural response of 11 southern seabird species at the Crozet Islands, Southern Indian Ocean, to drone approaches at specific altitudes. We first show that the behavioural response differed between species depending on the altitude of the drone approach. At 50 m of altitude, only one of the studied species showed a detectable reaction, whereas at 10 m, most species showed strong behavioural postures of stress. Adult penguins breeding in large colonies, and some albatross species showed little behavioural response even when the drone was as close as 3 m, whereas other species such as giant petrels or cormorants appeared highly sensitive to drone approaches. Among King Penguins, although incubating adults showed little signs of behavioural stress, non-breeding adults and fledglings in crèches exhibited strong behavioural responses to the drone approach. Monitoring heart rate allowed us to investigate the link between behavioural and physiological response to that specific potential stressor in king penguins. Whereas we confirmed the expected link between physiological and behavioural response in chicks, breeding adults showed no behavioural sign of stress but had a significant increase in heart rate, the relative increase being higher than in chicks. All together these results have important implications for the conservation of species and should be helpful for future legislations on the use of drones. |
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Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC) Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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Flights of drones over sub-Antarctic seabirds show species- and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses |
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Flights of drones over sub-Antarctic seabirds show species- and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses |
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Flights of drones over sub-Antarctic seabirds show species- and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses |
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Flights of drones over sub-Antarctic seabirds show species- and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses |
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flights of drones over sub-antarctic seabirds show species- and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses |
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ISSN: 0722-4060 EISSN: 1432-2056 Polar Biology https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01572348 Polar Biology, Springer Verlag, 2018, 41 (2), pp.259-266. ⟨10.1007/s00300-017-2187-z⟩ |
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