Using stereo-video techniques to study schooling behaviour in situ - NEW PUBLICATION

[JULIA SANTANA GARCON]

Hi all,

please find attached an article that we just published in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes about the presettlement schooling behaviour of juvenile priacanthids.

We used stereo-video to obtain fish lengths, swimming speed and schooling parameters (Nearest Neighbour Distance).

Presettlement schooling behaviour of a priacanthid, the Purplespotted Bigeye Priacanthus tayenus (Priacanthidae: Teleostei)

authors:  J. Santana Garcon, J. Leis, S. Newman and E. Harvey

The data was obtained using pelagic BRUVS, you will find a short description of the technique in the article. This research is part of my PhD project: 'The development and validation of a mid-water baited video technique for investigating pelagic fishassemblages'.

 

I hope you will find it interesting.

 

Cheers,

 

Julia

 

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Julia Santana Garcon

PhD candidate
School of Plant Biology

UWA Oceans Institute
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009
Australia

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[Euan Harvey]

Also note that Julia now has a Youtube video with some of the footage which this paper was based on.

 

See

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uydjCqfqIY