Currently there are a lot of papers and projects examining the responses of wildlife to drone surveys, but the majority of these seem to focus on behavioural responses of individuals. So far, I have only been able to find three papers examining physiological impacts of drones on wildlife:
Ditmer, Mark A., et al. "Bears show a physiological but limited behavioral response to unmanned aerial vehicles." Current Biology 25.17 (2015): 2278-2283.
Ditmer, Mark A., et al. "Bears habituate to the repeated exposure of a novel stimulus, unmanned aircraft systems." Conservation physiology 7.1 (2019): coy067.
Weimerskirch, Henri, Aurélien Prudor, and Quentin Schull. "Flights of drones over sub-Antarctic seabirds show species-and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses." Polar Biology 41.2 (2018): 259-266.
Does anyone know of any other papers or conference proceedings that explore this subject?
Thanks!
Please take a look at this link.
http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/45_1/45_1_89-94.pdf
Andrew Barnas according to my surfing in the web, I found some articles related to this. Please go through the following link and check whether they will be helpful to solve your research problem.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=hysiological+Responses+of+Wildlife+to+Drones&btnG=
Flights of drones over sub-Antarctic seabirds show species-and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses
Please take a look at this link.
http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/45_1/45_1_89-94.pdf
Praneeth Silva , Mukul Barwant Thanks but those articles are the ones I listed in the original posting. As far as I know these are the only published articles that exist on this topic.
Hi Andrew,
I'm working on the same subject at the moment and I agree with your search. The literature about the physiological impacts of drones on wildlife is scarce.
We are going to do some experiments to examine this in large ungulates (Lama guanicoe) once the quarantine in Argentina eases a bit and we can go to the field again.
Working in the same area, these are also the only resources I know on the topic. I think the main reason is that it is really hard to find methods to investigate this questions, since any physiological measurements involve getting close to the animals and thereby almost necessarily distorting the results of the drone impact. So, if anybody comes across methods to do physiological measurements non- or minimal invasive, please share!
For anyone still interested in this, the recent publication by Christiansen et al. in Marine Mammal Science does indirectly assess physiological impacts of drone surveys in a way. One of the things they measured was rate of surfacing events of southern right whales, which is a measurement used for breathing rates. So in a clever way, they are able to assess impacts of drones on respiratory rate on these whales!
Article Southern right whales show no behavioral response to low noi...
hi dear,
Please take a look at this links:
1-Article Fright or Flight? Behavioural Responses of Kangaroos to Dron...
2-https://peerj.com/articles/8129.pdf
3-Article Bears habituate to the repeated exposure of a novel stimulus...
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