env-data – new tools for studying animal movement and their environment gil bohrer assistant...
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Env-DATA – New Tools for Studying Animal
Movement and Their Environment
Gil Bohrer
Assistant Professor for Ecological Engineering
Department of Civil, Environmental & Geodetic Engineering
The Ohio State University
GPM Workshop
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Movement is tightly linked with the environment – along the path, and the path not taken
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www.movebank.org
What to do with track data?
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Track annotation – linking environmental data to observed track points
Albatross movement to Galapagos
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Env-DATA– Environmental Data Automated Track Annotation system in MoveBank
NASA Biological Monitoring, project #NNX11AP61G
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Zebras at the Okavango Delta: Moving to greener pastures
Botswana
South Africa
Okavango river delta
Makgadikgadi salt pans
Namibia
Zimbabwe
Bartlam-Brooks et al JGR 2014 (in press)
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Zebras surf the green waveConsider precipitation as well
Latitude (m)
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Time dd-mm Time dd-mm
Aborted migration
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Our data allowed developing a very good model of zebra movement
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Zebras use rain in the dry-season habitat to predict grass growth at the destination wet-season habitat
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Going global - Trans-American migration of Turkey Vulture
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Breeding home-range size is affected by environment – NDVI and Temperature
Northern/Southern range precluded us from testing precipitation using TRMM