By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Entertainment Business Newsweekly -- Fresh data on Life Science Research - Hydrobiology are presented in a new report. According to news reporting out of Darwin, Australia, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, “Remote underwater video (RUV) cameras are commonly used in marine environments to sample fish, but to date have infrequently been used in freshwater environments. We tested the utility of a range of underwater video camera deployments (floating/benthic and fixed/moving) for surveying fish assemblages within tropical wetland habitats of Kakadu National Park, Australia.”
Financial support for this research came from Department of Environment and Energy (AUS).
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Charles Darwin University, “RUV cameras in both fixed and moving configurations were able to detect a range of fish species in various habitat types, with shy and/or flighty species readily detected. Cameras also performed well in a variety of conditions, although dense macrophytes posed a challenge for all video deployment types. RUV camera survey data compared favourably to two traditional fish survey techniques (visual census and pop netting). However, fixed camera deployments more closely resembled data collected via traditional techniques; whereas moving RUV deployments were consistently lower than any other method.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We find that RUV cameras are a valuable monitoring and sampling technique for assessing freshwater fish assemblages in tropical wetlands, and are especially useful where remoteness, difficult access, variable water quality, complex habitats and interactions between humans and dangerous aquatic life can limit the use of other traditional fish sampling techniques.”
For more information on this research see: Efficacy of remote underwater video cameras for monitoring tropical wetland fishes. Hydrobiologia , 2018;807(1):145-164. Hydrobiologia can be contacted at: Springer, Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 Gz Dordrecht, Netherlands. (Springer - www.springer.com; Hydrobiologia - http://www.springerlink.com/content/0018-8158/)
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting A.J. King, Charles Darwin Univ, Res Inst Environm & Livelihoods, Sch Environm, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. Additional authors for this research include A. George, D.J. Buckle, P.A. Novak and C.J. Fulton.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3390-1. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-01-14), Researchers from Charles Darwin University Describe Findings in Hydrobiology (Efficacy of remote underwater video cameras for monitoring tropical wetland fishes), Entertainment Business Newsweekly, 47, ISSN: 1944-1665, BUTTER® ID: 014963095
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