The sensory ecology of ocean navigation
- PMID: 18490387
- DOI: 10.1242/jeb.015792
The sensory ecology of ocean navigation
Abstract
How animals guide themselves across vast expanses of open ocean, sometimes to specific geographic areas, has remained an enduring mystery of behavioral biology. In this review we briefly contrast underwater oceanic navigation with terrestrial navigation and summarize the advantages and constraints of different approaches used to analyze animal navigation in the sea. In addition, we highlight studies and techniques that have begun to unravel the sensory cues that underlie navigation in sea turtles, salmon and other ocean migrants. Environmental signals of importance include geomagnetic, chemical and hydrodynamic cues, perhaps supplemented in some cases by celestial cues or other sources of information that remain to be discovered. An interesting similarity between sea turtles and salmon is that both have been hypothesized to complete long-distance reproductive migrations using navigational systems composed of two different suites of mechanisms that function sequentially over different spatial scales. The basic organization of navigation in these two groups of animals may be functionally similar, and perhaps also representative of other long-distance ocean navigators.
Similar articles
-
Marine turtles use geomagnetic cues during open-sea homing.Curr Biol. 2007 Jan 23;17(2):126-33. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.062. Curr Biol. 2007. PMID: 17240337
-
There and back again: natal homing by magnetic navigation in sea turtles and salmon.J Exp Biol. 2019 Feb 6;222(Pt Suppl 1):jeb184077. doi: 10.1242/jeb.184077. J Exp Biol. 2019. PMID: 30728225 Review.
-
Geomagnetic imprinting: A unifying hypothesis of long-distance natal homing in salmon and sea turtles.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 9;105(49):19096-101. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801859105. Epub 2008 Dec 5. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008. PMID: 19060188 Free PMC article. Review.
-
Conflicting evidence about long-distance animal navigation.Science. 2006 Aug 11;313(5788):791-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1129048. Science. 2006. PMID: 16902128
-
Animal behaviour: geomagnetic map used in sea-turtle navigation.Nature. 2004 Apr 29;428(6986):909-10. doi: 10.1038/428909a. Nature. 2004. PMID: 15118716
Cited by
-
Albatrosses orient toward infrasound while foraging.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Oct 17;120(42):e2314980120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2314980120. Epub 2023 Oct 9. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023. PMID: 37812705 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
-
Collective movement as a solution to noisy navigation and its vulnerability to population loss.Proc Biol Sci. 2022 Nov 30;289(1987):20221910. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1910. Epub 2022 Nov 16. Proc Biol Sci. 2022. PMID: 36382526 Free PMC article.
-
Compensation for wind drift prevails for a shorebird on a long-distance, transoceanic flight.Mov Ecol. 2022 Mar 7;10(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s40462-022-00310-z. Mov Ecol. 2022. PMID: 35255994 Free PMC article.
-
Magnetic maps in animal navigation.J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2022 Jan;208(1):41-67. doi: 10.1007/s00359-021-01529-8. Epub 2022 Jan 9. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2022. PMID: 34999936 Free PMC article. Review.
-
Regional movements of satellite-tagged whale sharks Rhincodon typus in the Gulf of Aden.Ecol Evol. 2021 Mar 23;11(9):4920-4934. doi: 10.1002/ece3.7400. eCollection 2021 May. Ecol Evol. 2021. PMID: 33976859 Free PMC article.
Publication types
MeSH terms
LinkOut - more resources
Full Text Sources
