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The influence of geomagnetic activity on animal behavior in laboratory conditions has been assessed using time series of unprecedented length: several years of continuous instrumental monitoring of the electric activity of weakly electric elephantfish Gnathonemus leopoldianus and the motor activity of catfish Hoplosternum thoracatum and cockroaches Blaberus craniifer, in comparison with several indices of magnetic disturbance. Special care has been taken to obviate spurious effects in correlating the essentially non-stationary data. The results of analysis do not show any significant influence of geomagnetic activity on the measured bioindicator parameters.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Deshcherevsky, A.Ya. Sidorin, E.P. Kharin, 2009, published in Biofizika, 2009, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 554–562.
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Deshcherevsky, A.V., Sidorin, A.Y. & Kharin, E.P. Geomagnetic disturbances and animal activity in laboratory conditions. BIOPHYSICS 54, 389–395 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350909030245
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