Zoobooth: A portable, open-source and affordable approach for repeated size measurements of live individual zooplankton.

ABSTRACT: Repeated size measurements of individual animals are valuable data for many research questions, but it is often hard to obtain without causing stress or damage to the animal. We developed a video-based approach called Zoobooth to size individual zooplankton, which involves a low risk of handling accidents and stress. Here we describe the process of assembling the instrument we used to acquire video recordings of single zooplankton and the procedure to obtain size estimates from the recorded videos. Our setup produces accurate size estimates for Daphnia magna (correlation to manual measurements = 0.97), and was also tested with other zooplankton species. Zoobooth is especially advantageous when one needs size measurements of live, individual mesozooplankton. The device is small, port

SUBMITTER: Broch C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10160350 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature