Meeting Abstract
Global climate change is rapidly affecting ecosystems world-wide by altering species’ ranges, disrupting trophic interactions, and, in some cases, causing population declines. As such, there is widespread interest in developing new methodologies that will facilitate studies of climate change responses across taxa. In this talk, we will discuss studies of phenology, thermal biology, and microhabitat selection, and show how the use of biologging in this research is improving our ability to understand and forecast species’ responses to climate change. One advantage of the biologging approach is that it can facilitate the measurement of traits at the level of the individual, permitting research that investigates how physiological and behavioral plasticity mitigates the negative consequences of climatic variation. We advocate for increased use of biologgers in climate change research, and increased biologging in experimental manipulations, to document and understand species’ responses that may otherwise be difficult to study.
