Fig. 1
From: A role for lakes in revealing the nature of animal movement using high dimensional telemetry systems
Lakes come in many shapes and sizes, all of which have the potential to be monitored using environmental sensors and telemetry to reveal the nature of animal movement. In this grid we show lake size scales between small (left half) and large (right half) and experiments can be conducted in isolation (a single lake, lower half) or in a replicated design (upper half). Finding matching lakes to replicate experiments allows a degree of control that is difficult or impossible to achieve in other systems. Moreover, scaling lakes from small to large allows a degree of environmental realism desired for the experiments, with animals in small lakes using all habitats but in large lakes habitat segregation and different competitive mechanisms emerging