Are bats in forests bigger?

Plot surverys

Plot surveys

Field survery data on a plot
plotID land_cover bats
F1 forest 7
F2 forest 2
A1 arable 4

Time Series

Time Series

  • quasi continuous measurements
  • measurement interval
  • climate, soil, remote sensing
time temperature
12:00 18.3
12:15 18.5
12:30 18.6

Time Series

Visualization of time series data

Species Lists

Vegetation of F1
species n
Digitalis purpurea 4
Galium odoratum 25
Fagus Sylvatica 20

Geospatial Data

  • defined by explicit location on the earth surface
  • information attached to coordinates
Geospatial Data: Tree locations
tree_id easting northing species_code dbh
r00430 477422.4 5631970 BUR 0.12
r01106 477411.7 5631946 BUR 0.68
b00818 477796.0 5632316 BUR 0.23
r00170 477816.9 5632201 EIT 0.59

Geospatial Data

Data for monitoring

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Other data sources

  • Lab / Field experiments
  • Individuum based information (e.g. traits)
  • Data repositories
  • Socio-Economic data (also useful for landscape ecology)
  • Open Data from paper
  • …

References

Turner, W. 2014. “Sensing Biodiversity.” Science 346 (6207): 301–2. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1256014.