TY - JOUR
T1 - Australia's continental-scale acoustic tracking database and its automated quality control process
AU - Hoenner, Xavier
AU - Huveneers, Charlie
AU - Steckenreuter, Andre
AU - Simpfendorfer, Colin
AU - Tattersall, Katherine
AU - Jaine, Fabrice
AU - Atkins, Natalia
AU - Babcock, Russ
AU - Brodie, Stephanie
AU - Burgess, Jonathan
AU - Campbell, Hamish
AU - Heupel, Michelle
AU - Pasquer, Benedicte
AU - Proctor, Roger
AU - Taylor, Matthew D.
AU - Udyawer, Vinay
AU - Harco, Robert
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PY - 2018/1/30
Y1 - 2018/1/30
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1038/sdata.2017.206
DO - 10.1038/sdata.2017.206
M3 - Article
C2 - 29381146
AN - SCOPUS:85041291486
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 5
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Scientific Data
JF - Scientific Data
M1 - 180206
ER -