Table 2.

Summary information from literature review of accelerometer specifications in ecology-based aquatic acoustic telemetry studies

Item	Summary
No. articles using accelerometers	53
No. of unique species	Fish: 38 Elasmobranchs: 10 Sea snakes: 2 Lobster: 1 Crab: 1 Cuttlefish: 1 Conch: 1
Sampling rate	No. article reported: 33 5 Hz (19) 10 Hz (8) 20 Hz (4) 200 Hz (2)
Sampling window	No. articles reported: 30 range: 0.25–180 s mean: 34 s median: 25 s
Operational mode	0-Axis (1) 2-Axis (4) 3-Axis (48)
Other sensors	Pressure (39) Temperature (2)
Attachment method	Internal (39) External (14)

Numbers in brackets represent the number of studies associated with the item row