Scaling up the Impact of Local Animal Telemetry Studies Using Movebank

Scaling up the impact of local animal telemetry studies using Movebank

Sarah Cain DavidsonAFS Québec, 21 August 2014

Max Planck Institute for OrnithologyThe Ohio State University

NEFSC / CFF / BOEM

Telemetry studies provide unique documentation of animal space use and behavior. However, sample sizes typically don’t provide the scale of data needed for statistically robust hypothesis testing or assessing response to long-term ecological change. Data sharing offers a way to increase sample sizes and compare results over time and across populations. Movebank (movebank.org) is a free online database of animal tracking data open to all researchers that supports sharing, management, and analysis of data describing movements of individual animals. By mapping data to a common format, the tools on Movebank become a shared resource that can support collaborative analysis. Users retain ownership of their data and define who can view and access their data. Live data feeds and flexible web interfaces allow users to import and manage their data. Analysis tools in Movebank are supplemented by easy conversion for use in other software and user-created analysis tools. The new Env-DATA System allows users to annotate animal trajectories with estimates of hundreds of environmental variables available from global remote-sensing products and weather reanalyses. Taken together, these features enable researchers and resource managers to scale up the impact of local telemetry studies and make novel contributions to the field of movement ecology.

ABSTRACT

MOVEBANK Manage | Analyze | Share | Archive

Users: 6,400 Taxa: 417 Studies: 1,306 Animals: 40,000 Locations: 99.9 mil

Locations of studies currently visible to the public at movebank.org

FUNDINGPrevious German Science Foundation U.S. National Science Foundation

Current U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Long term Max Planck Institute for Ornithology University of Konstanz

SHARING & PRIVACYData owners control access

data managers (read and write)collaborators (read only)public

Manage | Analyze | Share | Archive

DATA TYPESIndividual animal tracks and related attributesAll data are stored in user-created studies


Kranstauber et al. 2011, Environmental Modelling and SoftwarePostgreSQL database

DATA TYPESTracking methods

GPSArgos Doppler ShiftRadio transmitterBird ringNatural markSolar geolocator: locations + light levels


DATA TYPESMovebank provides a common format


What Movebank sees in your file

How Movebank will save the data

TOOLSA shared database allows sharing data and tools



Mapping


data from Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and collaborators


MappingManagement


Douglas et al. 2012, Methods in Ecology and Evolution


MappingManagement



MappingManagementFile conversion



MappingManagementFile conversionSoftware and analysis packages


Kranstauber et al. 2012, Journal of Animal Ecology

R package “move”

Import data via an automated feed to Argos: DIAG Microwave

NorthStar

LIVE DATA FEEDSManage | Analyze | Share | Archive

Import data via an automated feed to Argos: DIAG Microwave

NorthStar GSM: CTT

e-obsMicrowaveNorthStar/GeoTrack



and receive email notifications

ENV-DATAManage | Analyze | Share | Archive

Dodge et al. 2013, Movement Ecology

funded by the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and NASA Ecological Forecasting Program Project NNX11AP61G

Link animal movement data to global environmental datasets




Link animal movement data to global environmental datasets Identify and download data files




Link animal movement data to global environmental datasets Identify and download data files Transform formats/projections




Link animal movement data to global environmental datasets Identify and download data files Transform formats/projections Interpolate values




Link animal movement data to global environmental datasets Identify and download data files Transform formats/projections Interpolate values Provide documentation

ENV-DATA: PRODUCTSManage | Analyze | Share | Archive

Topography: ASTER, ETOPO1, and SRTM digital elevation models


ETOPO1 Global Relief Model


TRMM average rainfall, July 2013

TopographyWeather and climate: European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

NCEP-DOE Reanalysis 2North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR)

NOAA Global Climate IndicesTropical Rainfall Measuring Mission


TopographyWeather and climateOcean conditions:

Oregon State University Ocean Productivity ReanalysisOSCAR Ocean Surface CurrentsMODIS OceanColor

MODIS Ocean chlorophyl a concentration, 2012


TopographyWeather and climateOcean conditionsTerrestrial conditions and demographics:

MODIS Land, Snow & IceGlobCover Land CoverSEDAC Human Population DensityGlobal Land Cover Facility AVHRR NDVI

GlobCover land cover, 2009

ENV-DATA: USER INTERFACEManage | Analyze | Share | Archive

1. Select data from Movebank.


1. Select data from Movebank.2. Browse and select environmental variables.






1. Select data from Movebank.2. Browse and select environmental variables.3. Choose interpolation methods.


1. Select data from Movebank.2. Browse and select environmental variables.3. Choose interpolation methods.4. Submit request.


1. Select data from Movebank.2. Browse and select environmental variables.3. Choose interpolation methods.4. Submit request.5. Retrieve data and documentation.

DATA REPOSITORYHave your dataset reviewed and receive a DOI


datarepository.movebank.orgUniversity of Konstanz Library

CC License DOI

Study in Movebank

PUBLIC OUTREACHBeta: Show tracks on other websites


www.ospreytrax.com

PUBLIC OUTREACHBeta: Animal Tracking App


available on the Apple AppStore and at Google Play

CURRENT WORKVisualization toolsMore live feedsR package for Env-DATA


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSGil BohrerRoland KaysRolf WeinzierlMartin WikelskiMatthias BergerMartin StorhasDavid DouglasWolfgang FiedlerBart KranstauberKamran SafiMovebank usersand many others!data and photo from NEFSC / CFF / BOEM

FUNDING

PARTNERS

Co-authors

Developers

Collaborators

Title slideEURODEER

THANK YOU!Questions, feedback, requests?

Sarah Cain Davidson Movebank data curator [email protected]

movebank.org

Photo by Isidro Vila Verde, 2011

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Scaling up the Impact of Local Animal Telemetry Studies Using Movebank