Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

Ecological “big data” Human activities are rapidly altering the natural world. Nowhere is this more evident, perhaps, than in the Arctic, yet this region remains one of the most remote and difficult to study. Researchers have increasingly relied on animal tracking data in these regions to understand...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Davidson, Sarah C., Bohrer, Gil, Gurarie, Eliezer, LaPoint, Scott, Mahoney, Peter J., Boelman, Natalie T., Eitel, Jan U. H., Prugh, Laura R., Vierling, Lee A., Jennewein, Jyoti, Grier, Emma, Couriot, Ophélie, Kelly, Allicia P., Meddens, Arjan J. H., Oliver, Ruth Y., Kays, Roland, Wikelski, Martin, Aarvak, Tomas, Ackerman, Joshua T., Alves, José A., Bayne, Erin, Bedrosian, Bryan, Belant, Jerrold L., Berdahl, Andrew M., Berlin, Alicia M., Berteaux, Dominique, Bêty, Joël, Boiko, Dmitrijs, Booms, Travis L., Borg, Bridget L., Boutin, Stan, Boyd, W. Sean, Brides, Kane, Brown, Stephen, Bulyuk, Victor N., Burnham, Kurt K., Cabot, David, Casazza, Michael, Christie, Katherine, Craig, Erica H., Davis, Shanti E., Davison, Tracy, Demma, Dominic, DeSorbo, Christopher R., Dixon, Andrew, Domenech, Robert, Eichhorn, Götz, Elliott, Kyle, Evenson, Joseph R., Exo, Klaus-Michael
Other Authors: National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2020
Subjects:
Arctic
Davidson
Climate change
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abb7080
https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/science.abb7080
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.abb7080
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Summary:Ecological “big data” Human activities are rapidly altering the natural world. Nowhere is this more evident, perhaps, than in the Arctic, yet this region remains one of the most remote and difficult to study. Researchers have increasingly relied on animal tracking data in these regions to understand individual species' responses, but if we want to understand larger-scale change, we need to integrate our understanding across species. Davidson et al. introduce an open-source data archive that currently hosts more than 15 million location data points across 96 species and use it to show distinct climate change responses across species. Such ecological “big data” can lead to a wider understanding of change. Science , this issue p. 712

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