Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System University of Tasmania, Private Bag 110, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia.
School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia.
Sci Data. 2018 Jan 30;5:170206. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.206.
Our ability to predict species responses to environmental changes relies on accurate records of animal movement patterns. Continental-scale acoustic telemetry networks are increasingly being established worldwide, producing large volumes of information-rich geospatial data. During the last decade, the Integrated Marine Observing System's Animal Tracking Facility (IMOS ATF) established a permanent array of acoustic receivers around Australia. Simultaneously, IMOS developed a centralised national database to foster collaborative research across the user community and quantify individual behaviour across a broad range of taxa. Here we present the database and quality control procedures developed to collate 49.6 million valid detections from 1891 receiving stations. This dataset consists of detections for 3,777 tags deployed on 117 marine species, with distances travelled ranging from a few to thousands of kilometres. Connectivity between regions was only made possible by the joint contribution of IMOS infrastructure and researcher-funded receivers. This dataset constitutes a valuable resource facilitating meta-analysis of animal movement, distributions, and habitat use, and is important for relating species distribution shifts with environmental covariates.
我们预测物种对环境变化反应的能力依赖于对动物运动模式的准确记录。全球范围内越来越多地建立了大陆规模的声学遥测网络,产生了大量信息丰富的地理空间数据。在过去十年中,综合海洋观测系统的动物跟踪设施(IMOS ATF)在澳大利亚周围建立了一个永久性的声学接收器阵列。同时,IMOS 开发了一个集中的国家数据库,以促进用户社区的合作研究,并在广泛的分类群中量化个体行为。在这里,我们展示了为整理来自 1891 个接收站的 4960 万条有效检测结果而开发的数据库和质量控制程序。该数据集包含了在 117 种海洋物种上部署的 3777 个标签的检测结果,其移动距离从几公里到几千公里不等。只有通过 IMOS 基础设施和研究人员资助的接收器的共同贡献,才能实现区域之间的连通性。该数据集是一个有价值的资源,有助于对动物运动、分布和栖息地利用进行元分析,对于将物种分布变化与环境协变量联系起来也很重要。