Decision Support Tools for Wildlife and Land Management Through a Shared Platform for Animal-Borne Sensor Data
Abstract
Tracking wildlife with animal-borne sensors offers a growing and unique record of biodiversity. Collected using a variety of sensors and methods, and often transmitted remotely, these data are collected and used by thousands of groups for research, wildlife management and conservation. The Movebank platform is used by over 3,000 researchers globally to harmonize, archive and share billions of animal-borne sensor measurements for over 1,000 species. Live data feeds and access control allow users to share data, publicly or privately, from the moment the sensor is deployed. Through the EnvDATA System in Movebank, users can discover and annotate hundreds of variables from global remote sensing and weather reanalysis products to animal tracking data. The newly-launched MoveApps platform, closely integrated with Movebank, allows users to design and share workflows composed of analysis modules (Apps) that access, process and analyze data stored in Movebank. Users build workflows through an intuitive web-based graphical interface. Apps, presently developed by the Movebank team and meant to be contributed in the future by the movement ecology community, have public source code and will link with EnvDATA and local remote sensing products. Taken together, this infrastructure can support multi-agency efforts to jointly address large-scale conservation questions and management challenges. We are now working with agency and non-profit partners throughout the Yukon-to-Yellowstone migration corridor to archive wildlife tracking data across the region on Movebank and to develop Apps within MoveApps. These data and tools will facilitate decision-making and address management questions within this corridor, such as: How are protected lands utilized by mammals throughout the region? What landscape or other environmental characteristics are most critical for migrating raptors? How is connectivity between protected areas influenced by current and predicted future environmental characteristics and anthropogenic disturbances? By developing these tools within a global infrastructure, we make them available for researchers and agencies internationally, and our partners can efficiently join future projects that extend beyond the Yukon-to-Yellowstone region.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021AGUFM.B25E1505D