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Rapid growth in bio-logging-the use of animal-borne electronic tags to document the movements, behaviour, physiology and environments of wildlife-offers opportunities to mitigate biodiversity threats and expand digital natural history archives. Here we present a vision to achieve such benefits by accounting for the heterogeneity inherent to bio-logging data and the concerns of those who collect and use them. First, we can enable data integration through standard vocabularies, transfer protocols and aggregation protocols, and drive their wide adoption. Second, we need to develop integrated data collections on standardized data platforms that support data preservation through public archiving and strategies that ensure long-term access. We outline pathways to reach these goals, highlighting the need for resources to govern community data standards and guide data mobilization efforts. We propose the launch of a community-led coordinating body and provide recommendations for how stakeholders-including government data centres, museums and those who fund, permit and publish bio-logging work-can support these efforts., Competing Interests: Competing interests: C.R. is the founding president of the International Bio-Logging Society (2017–2024), and F.C., S.C.D. and P.N. are the co-chairs of the society’s Data Standardisation Working Group. All other co-authors are members of the society and helped to conceive ideas through this working group. F.C. is the society’s current president and S.C.D. is a member of its executive committee. A.P.B.C. oversees management of the Seabird Tracking Database, C.Y.K. is the network coordinator of ATN, E.F. is a developer and manager of OBIS-SEAMAP, F.U. is former database designer of Euromammals, F.C. is coordinator of Euromammals, H.D. is former coordinator and current senior technical adviser of WRAM, J.D.P. is director of data operations of the OTN, L.B. is former data management director (2014–2020) of the OTN (with OTN 2010–2021), M.P.D. formerly coordinated management of the Seabird Tracking Database and S.C.D. is data curator of Movebank., (© 2025. The Authors and European Commission Joint Research Centre, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.)

Ernest, R.G.; Martin, R.E.; Desjardin, N.A.; Scripter, M.J.; Scarola, J.C.; Kim, H., and Trindell, R., 2025. Changes in loggerhead sea turtle nesting behavior on a nourished beach in southeast Florida. Journal of Coastal Research, 41(1), 27–48. Charlotte (North Carolina), ISSN 0749-0208. Under Florida's Strategic Beach Management Plan, large volumes of sand dredged offshore are routinely placed on beaches to mitigate shoreline erosion, a process known as beach nourishment. Sandy beaches, vital to the state's tourism economy, are also biologically critical to NW Atlantic loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). Long-term data have shown that nourishment projects can negatively affect sea turtle nesting behavior, and to date, no design changes have effectively ameliorated these impacts. The frequency of beach nourishment projects in Florida will likely increase with a changing climate, and thus, it is imperative that they be designed and built to enhance sea turtle nesting habitat. In this study, real-time kinematic GPS and binned logistic regression analyses were used to identify changes in loggerhead sea turtle nesting success, beach utilization, and nest placement associated with a beach nourishment project on Hutchinson Island, Florida. Beach profile characteristics (width, slope, and elevation) were analyzed before and after nourishment to determine the likelihood of a turtle either nesting or abandoning its nesting attempt. Results showed that: (1) fewer loggerhead nests were placed on the nourished beach, even though the number of nesting attempts was similar before and after nourishment; (2) the percentage of nests washed out on the wide, flat nourished beach was 3.5 times greater than on the narrower, naturally sloped beach that preceded nourishment; and (3) a change in the cross-sectional beach profile was most strongly associated with decreased odds of nesting following nourishment. It is recommended that future nourishment projects in central and southeast Florida be designed and constructed, in consideration of local conditions, with as much slope as possible from the waterline to the dune. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]