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Behavioral Ecology Lab
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A lab that attaches data loggers to seabirds to uncover their life-history strategies and the state of marine pollution.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading seabird movements to understand how they live and the state of the ocean today.
The Behavioral Ecology Lab studies the life-history strategies of animals and the effects of human activities on them.
The main subjects are seabirds.
The lab combines biologging, in which recording devices are attached to animals to study their behavior, with chemical analysis.
By combining records of seabird movements with analysis of mercury concentrations, the lab also works to clarify the actual state of ocean pollution.
Key terms
- Biologging
- A method of studying animal behavior by attaching a small recording device to an animal and recording its movements
- Life-history strategy
- An animal's pattern of allocating time and energy over its lifetime, such as when and how often it grows and reproduces
- Trade-off
- A relationship in which increasing one thing decreases another
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The lab uses biologging and chemical analysis to clarify animals' life-history strategies and the effects of human activities on animals. The main subjects are seabirds, and by using records of their movements and mercury analysis, the lab investigates both their life-history strategies and ocean pollution.
*Illustrative imageLife-History Strategies of Seabirds
The lab studies animal life-history strategies using seabirds. In 2026, it published a paper based on experiments with long-lived seabirds, showing that energetic flexibility is a hidden axis of life-history trade-offs.
*Illustrative imageOcean Pollution Seen Through Seabirds
Using data loggers attached to seabirds, the lab tracks their movements throughout the year and, together with mercury concentrations in their bodies, examines how mercury in the ocean is taken up by seabirds. The lab has also published a study that estimated the spatial distribution of mercury from a global-scale monitoring analysis.
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- ProfessorAkiko Shoji
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Seabird colony nests on the Oregon Coast ( )” BLM Oregon & Washington / Public domain (cropped)
- Life-History Strategies of Seabirds: “Waved Albatross, nesting, Española island, July 18, 2025” E bailey / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Ocean Pollution Seen Through Seabirds: “Ocean waves 2” ShadowCipher02 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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