Range Mapper Videos

• Main Authors: George, Adrian, Widell, Sydney, Roth, Robert, Williams, John W.
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: animated map; geoinformatics; pollen; Quaternary; range shifts; science communication; software as a service; vegetation dynamics; Pacific; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7626576; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7626576

Short videos showcasing Range Mapper, a new set of online interactive and animated visualizations of plant taxon range shifts in North America, Europe, and Oceania since the Last Glacial Maximum. These animated maps of taxa distributions since the last deglaciation, based upon spatiotemporal networks of fossil occurrences, offer adaptable visualizations of species range shifts in response to past climate and other environmental changes. They are designed to be useful both for experts for quick-look insights into past patterns and processes at broad scales and for educators and science communicators interested in sharing knowledge about how species adapt to changing climates. The videos show oak and spruce, hemlock, and spruce in North America, spruce and beech in Europe, and eucalyptus and nothofagus in Oceania. See our paper for more information: George, A.K., Roth, R.E., Widell, S., and Williams, J.W. (in revision). Range Mapper: An Adaptable Process for Making and Using Interactive, Animated Web Maps of Late-Quaternary Open Paleoecological Data. Open Quaternary. Data were obtained from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database and its constituent databases: the North American Pollen Database, the European Pollen Database and Alpine Pollen Database, and the Indo-Pacific Pollen Database. The work of data contributors, data stewards, and the Neotoma community is gratefully acknowledged. Ice sheet data is from Dalton et al (2020) and Hughes et al (2016) - see full citations below. This work was funded by NSF (1550707, 1948926), the University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School, University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School, and the Minnie Riess Detling Trust.