Data assimilation reveals behavioral dynamics of sea cucumbers as a model for slow-moving benthic animals
Tsutomu Takagi, Yuto Tanaka, Erica Sasano, Kouki Kanda, Yuichi Sakai · 2025
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Description
Five authors track sea cucumbers with sound tags and smart math in this 2025 study. Japanese sea cucumbers matter for ecology and fisheries, but they move so slowly that watching them directly gives poor records of where they go.
The team combined acoustic telemetry with a Kalman filter method that merges noisy signals into a smooth path estimate. They also measured how complex each path was and modeled the roles of water temperature, day and night cycles, and boulders. Warmer water raised movement in the growing stage, and boulders mattered in season dependent ways. Long term records on released animals inform settlement and spread.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tsutomu Takagi, Yuto Tanaka, Erica Sasano, Kouki Kanda, Yuichi Sakai |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 90 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |