Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, Station d'Écologie de Chizé- La Rochelle Université, CNRS UMR7372, 79360, Villiers-en-Bois, France.
BEDIC, OD Nature, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium.
Sci Data. 2020 Mar 18;7(1):94. doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-0406-x.
The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data (RAATD) is a Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research project led jointly by the Expert Groups on Birds and Marine Mammals and Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics, and endorsed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. RAATD consolidated tracking data for multiple species of Antarctic meso- and top-predators to identify Areas of Ecological Significance. These datasets and accompanying syntheses provide a greater understanding of fundamental ecosystem processes in the Southern Ocean, support modelling of predator distributions under future climate scenarios and create inputs that can be incorporated into decision making processes by management authorities. In this data paper, we present the compiled tracking data from research groups that have worked in the Antarctic since the 1990s. The data are publicly available through biodiversity.aq and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. The archive includes tracking data from over 70 contributors across 12 national Antarctic programs, and includes data from 17 predator species, 4060 individual animals, and over 2.9 million observed locations.
南极追踪数据回溯分析（RAATD）是一项由南极研究科学委员会鸟类和海洋哺乳动物专家组以及南极生物多样性信息学专家组联合牵头、南极海洋生物资源保护委员会认可的项目。RAATD 整合了多种南极中上层捕食者的追踪数据，以确定具有生态意义的区域。这些数据集和配套的综合报告增进了人们对南大洋基本生态系统过程的理解，支持了在未来气候情景下对捕食者分布的建模，并为管理部门的决策过程提供了可纳入的投入。在本数据论文中，我们提供了自 20 世纪 90 年代以来在南极开展研究的各个研究小组的综合追踪数据。这些数据可通过 biodiversity.aq 和海洋生物地理信息系统公开获取。该档案包含来自 12 个国家南极计划的 70 多名贡献者的数据，涵盖了 17 种捕食者物种、4060 只个体动物和超过 290 万个观测点的位置信息。
