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Table 2 Information extracted from 61 reviewed classifications (54 articles, including our study)

From: Animal-borne acoustic data alone can provide high accuracy classification of activity budgets

Devices

N studies

Species

Devices weight (g)

Sampling frequency (Hz)

Number of activities

Algorithm

Global accuracy (%)

Additional information

Terr

Aqua

Fly

Range

N

Range

N

Range

N

RF

DT

SVM

DA

NN

KNN

MM

Mix

Range

N

Accelerometer alone

34

25

8

1

[2.0–371]

16

[0.007–100]

33

[2–12]

34

9

5

5

4

3

2

1

4

[73.3–100.0]

34

Energy expenditure

Accelerometer + other(s)

16

10

4

2

[15.5–160]

7

[0.02–100]

16

[2–8]

16

4

5

2

2

1

1

0

1

[71.8–99.0]

15

Energy expenditure + potentially others

GPS

7

4

0

3

[4.6–5500]

4

[0.003–1]

7

[2, 3]

7

3

2

0

1

0

0

1

0

[65.0–94.4]

7

Geographical position

Acoustic recorder

3

1

0

2

[16.2–41]

2

[16,000–22,050]

3

[3–19]

3

1

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

[94.1–98.5]

2

Biophony, geophony, anthropophony

Pressure sensor (depth)

1

0

1

0

0

0.011

1

3

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

94.0

1

Diving profile

  1. Other devices deployed concomitantly to accelerometers: GPS (n = 4), gyroscope (n = 3), magnetometer (n = 1), gyroscope + magnetometer (n = 5), pressure (n = 1), gyroscope + pressure (n = 1), magnetometer + acoustic (n = 1). Species categorisation: terr. terrestrial, aqua. aquatic, fly. flying. Algorithms: RF random forest, DT decision tree, SVM support vector machine, DA discriminant analysis, NN neural network, KNN K-nearest neighbour, MM Markov Model, mix combination of several algorithms [26, 32, 52,53,54, 68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115]