2023-09-12 マックス・プランク研究所
◆山岳地域や海洋など、気象観測ステーションが不足している場所でも有用であり、気象予測や気候変動の影響評価に役立つ可能性があります。これにより、未利用の詳細な気象情報が得られ、気象予測と生物学の両分野に関連があるとされています。
＜関連情報＞
- https://www.mpg.de/20828038/0912-ornr-animals-may-be-the-best-monitors-of-global-climate-change-987453-x
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01781-7
変化する気候を生物学的に知るレンズとしての動物センサー Animal-borne sensors as a biologically informed lens on a changing climate
Diego Ellis-Soto,Martin Wikelski &Walter Jetz
Abstract
As climate change transforms the biosphere, more comprehensive and biologically relevant measurements of changing conditions are needed. Traditional climate measurements are often constrained by geographically static, coarse, sparse and biased sampling, and only indirect links to ecological responses. Here we discuss how animal-borne sensors can deliver spatially fine-grain, biologically fine-tuned, relevant sampling of climatic conditions in support of ecological and climatic forecasting. Millions of fine-scale meteorological observations from over a thousand species have already been collected by animal-borne sensors. We highlight the opportunities that these growing data have for the intersection of biodiversity and climate science, particularly in terrestrial environments. Tagged animals worldwide could close critical data gaps, provide insights about changing ecosystems and broadly function as active environmental sentinels.
