Motes enhance data recovery from satellite-relayed biologgers and can facilitate collaborative research into marine habitat utilization

Table 2 Rate of message reception and of successful decoding of received messages (in %) calculated for both receiving platforms overall (Motes and Argos satellites), or by location for whales in Southern California (SoCal) or sharks in Hawaii

	Message reception rate (h)		Successful message decoding (%)
	Mote	Argos	Mote	Argos
Overall	3.9 ± 4.7*	0.8 ± 0.8	93.2 ± 11.7*	64.4 ± 23.2
SoCal	7.1 ± 4.7*	1.2 ± 0.4	86.5 ± 10.4*	56.9 ± 21.6
Hawaii	1.0 ± 3.0*	0.3 ± 0.7	78.7 ± 12.1	68.2 ± 25.1

* Significant differences between Motes and Argos platforms (n = 12 for whales in SoCal and n = 12 for sharks in Hawaii, Wilcoxon rank-sum test)