doing a map in mrmapping

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Step by step tutorial: Doing a multiple distributions map and

calculating spatial overlapping in MRMapping

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What do you need for this tutorial:

1. ModestR v2.1 or higher (previous versions still not include

MRMapping)

2. A ModestR database already created and populated with species distribution data (see our

tutorial “How to create a ModestR database” for details about how to create a ModestR database, or use the ModestR “Elasmobranchii” sample database available in ModestR website)

3. Internet connection4. About 30 minutes

ModestR software can be freely downloaded from http://www.ipez.es/ModestR


http://www.slideshare.net/modestrsoftware/step-by-step-tutorial-1-how-to-create-a-database

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We’ll describe how to create maps that can include data from several species, grouped

by any rank (class, order, family…), using MRMapping, and how to calculate spatial

overlappings. Follow the next steps!



First of all, start MRMapping, and select a ModestR database that already contains species distribution data, going to menu File/Select database, and then selecting the wanted database.


If you still don’t have a ModestR database,you can first download a sample databasefrom www.ipez.es/ModestR website: go to“Download” section, then to “Databases”,download “ModestR Elasmobranchiidatabase” and decompress the zip file inany folder. Then select the decompressedfile from MRMapping, going to menuFile/Select database, to work with it.

You can also follow the step-by-step tutorial“How to create a ModestR Database”available in the ModestR website to createand populate a ModestR database usingGBIF online data.



http://www.ipez.es:10001/ModestR/Downloads/Database/Elasmobranchii.zip

http://www.slideshare.net/modestrsoftware/step-by-step-tutorial-1-how-to-create-a-database

Now you can easily add to the map a species dataset from the selected database. Just go to the menu File/Add/Maps from ModestR database.


Go to File/Add/Maps from ModestR database


A tree view of the database will be shown, where you can easily navigate though the different levels (classes, orders, families, genuses and species). You can, for example, go to the species level of the same or of different branches, and select two different species by using the corresponding checkboxes. Then click on the “Select” button.


By default, each selected species will be added as a distinct individual series data to the map.

Expand any branch(es) and selected two different species, whether or not from the same branch.

This counter displays how manyspecies are currently selected. This isuseful to know how many species areinvolved when you selected a wholerank (e.g. a family, an order…).

Click on “Select” button


Both selected species will be shown on the map. For this example we are using species with occurrence data. So each occurrence is shown in the map as a colored point.


Sample data (occurrences) from both species are shown in the map.Note: occurrences are usually named ‘samples’ in ModestR


If you use range maps (e.g. those from “Elasmobranchii” sample database available in ModestR website), the areas of both species will be shown, like in this map:


MRMapping assigns a random color to each species added to the map.It can happen that it assigns very similar colors to two species, making it difficult to distinguish them, but it’s easy to change assigned colors, as we’ll see next.


To change map settings, go to Edit/Map list editor menu.


Go to Edit/Map list editor menu.

A dialog box with the list of different datasets currently shown in the map will be displayed.

Here are displayed the colors assigned to samples, land and sea presence areas (those two last colors are used in range maps).


To change colors of a series data just double-click on the name of the wanted series (in this example, each series corresponds to a species).


Double-click on the name of the wanted series

A dialog box will be displayed where you can change any color just by clicking on it.

To modify the color of the valid samples, for example, click on the corresponding colored square. A color-selection box will be displayed. Select the new color and accept. The corresponding samples will be immediately updated in the map.

If you are using range maps (such as“Elasmobranchii” sample database), youshould modify presence areas colors (e.g.sea color) in turn of sample colors.


Once you have changed the colors to your liking, you can export the map as an image.


Go to File/Export/Current map view as image menu option.

A dialog box will be displayed where you can set the dimensions and format of the image to be exported, add a grid or a legend. Let’s go to Legend tab, and check the “Add legend to map” option.Then click on the Preview button. A preview of the image to be exported will be shown on the default image viewer of your system. Close this preview, and click on the Accept button to export the image to a file.

When you export an image, the currentmap view is exported. So you can zoomto a specific area, for example, thenexport this view.


The exported image will probably look like this one (if you’re using “Elasmobranchii” sample database, the map will have areas in turn of occurrences):



Now let’s see how to do more complex maps, grouping presence data by ranks (orders, families, genuses…).First of all, we’ll start a new map, going to File/New menu option.


Go to File/New menu option to create a new map.


Then go to File/Add/Maps from ModestR database menu option, to select several species distribution maps to add.


Go to File/ File/Add/Maps from ModestR database menu option.


Then go to File/Add/Maps from ModestR database menu option, to select several species distribution maps to add.


Expand any branch(es) and selected for example a whole class, or one or two orders.

Change the Add mode to “Group by”, and select to group selected species by families, for example.

Click on “Select” button. If the selection you have done includes many species, a message may be displayed warning that the operation may take some time.


MRMapping will collect the data of every selected species and group them by the category you have selected.



Resulting map will show a different color for the data of each category you have selected (orders, families, genuses…).


Go to Edit/Map list editor menu.

A dialog box with the list of different datasets currently shown in the map will be displayed.In this example, data has been grouped by families. So here we can see that each family is a dataset, and, as previously explained, we can double click on any dataset name to modify colors and other settings.


You can also easily delete one or more datasets from the map.


Use the checkboxes on the left of the datasets to select them, and then click on the Del button to delete the checked datasets.Map will be immediately updated.


You can modify the order in which datasets are displayed on the map, thus modifying how they overlap.


Once all settings done, click on “Close” button to close this dialog box.

Order column indicates the order in which the datasets are displayed. The order nº1 indicates the topmost dataset, that is, the dataset that is painted above all the others. The order nº 2 is the next one, etc.So you may want to change this order to do that a dataset shall be more visible than another one.To do that, just select the wanted dataset, and change its relative order using the buttons Top, Up, Down and Bottom.The map will be immediately updated.


You can decide to add more data in any moment, just by going again to File/Add/Maps from ModestR database menu option, and selecting new data. There is no restriction in the way you may add data: you can now add a single species, or a whole family, etc…


Go to File/ File/Add/Maps from ModestR database menu option to add new data to the map.


And you can finally export resulting going to File/Export/Current map view as image menu option, as explained before.


Go to File/Export/Current map view as image menu option.


There are more things you can do un MRMapping, such as adding environmental data or visual templates.


In the Layers menu you can add visual templates or environmental data to the map.To use environmental data, you previously have to have integrated those data in ModestR.Consult the ModestR manual or the

tutorial “How to integrate and use environmental data in ModestR” for a description of how to do that.


http://www.slideshare.net/modestrsoftware/how-to-integrate-and-use-environmental-data-in-modestr

If you use range maps (e.g. those from “Elasmobranchii” sample database available in ModestR website), yoy can also calculate spatial overlapping between the distributions you have added to the map.


Overlapping report can also begenerated from occurrence-baseddistributions, but it has little interest,because it is calculated only taking intoaccount the overlappings of the 1’x1’cells where occurrences are present.

Go to File/Export/Overlapping report, and choose between short or full report. Data are exported in CSV format.Short report only calculates global spatial overlapping between each pair of distributions.Full report also provides information about occupied surface of each distribution and overlapping by habitat type.


It was theStep by step tutorial:

Doing a map in MRMapping

Thank you for your interest.

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