Transcript 1_GeorefSymposium

Building Biodiversity
Information Infrastructure:
Anticipating Avian Influenza Spread Patterns
A. Townsend Peterson
University of Kansas
H5N1 Spread
What Do We Know?
Characterize Migratory Bird
Movements: Massive Data Assembly
• Bird Occurrence Data – Summer and Winter
– Breeding Bird Survey - ~15M records
– Christmas Bird Count - ~20M records
– Bird Banding Laboratory Data - ~65M records
• ~13M recoveries, much less that connect seasons
• Environmental Data – support interpolation of
species’ ranges
– Climate data, topography/landform data, surface
reflectance (NDVI) data
Data Available
Moore Laboratory
British Museum
Inst Biologia UNAM
Harvard University
Fac Ciencias UNAM
Louisiana St U
Delaware Mus
American Mus
U Michigan
Western Fdn
Field Museum
Bell Museum
U Kansas
US Nat Mus
Mus Vert Zool
U Michoacana
Carnegia Mus
Calif Acad Scis
Inst Hist Nat Chiapas
San Diego Nat Hist Mus
UCLA
Cornell U
Canadian Mus Nature
Peabody Mus
Mus Nat Paris
Mus Aves de Mexico
LA County Mus
Florida Mus
Royal Ontario Mus
Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia
U Brit Columbia
U Aut Tamaulipas
U Arizona
U Aut Est Morelos
Texas Coop Wildl Collns
Frankfurt Mus
Berlin Mus
Col Front Sur Chetumal
Ecosur Chetumal
Bremen Museum
FES Zaragoza UNAM
Denver Mus
U Aut Baja Calif
U Washington
Stuttgart Mus
Madrid Mus
Leiden Mus
Michigan St U Mus
U Aut Nuevo Leon
Geneva Mus
Bonn Mus
Munich Mus
Genova Mus
Florence Mus
Vienna Mus
Cambridge Mus
Ft Hays St U
Craveri Mus Bra
U Nebraska
Manchester Mus
Iowa St U
Milan Mus
Moscow State U
State Darwin Mus
U Aut Campeche
Inst Pol Nac Mexico
U Oklahoma
Stockholm Mus
Fill the Gap: Mexico
• “Mexico Atlas”
– 350,000 specimens, 68 natural history museums
– 16 years of work
– 202,000 records now georeferenced
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Integrating Museums
Key Seasonal Distribution Info
Forecasting AI Spread in America
7 Arctic Waterfowl Species
Birds from westernmost Alaska
migrate almost exclusively to
California
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But just a relatively small distance
inland, Alaskan birds migrate both to
California and broadly into the
Interior
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Window 3
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Window 4
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Window 6 … note decreasing
importance of migration to California
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Window 7 … now essentially
exclusively Interior …
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Window 8 – note East Coast begins to
receive migrants
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Window 10 – note exclusively East
Coast now
Lessons Learned
• Vast amounts of biodiversity information exist
• But not always in useful formats
• Biodiversity challenges such as AI demand
prompt and efficient responses
• Need to build biodiversity data infrastructure:
– Digitize biodiversity data
– Integrate biodiversity data among institutions
• ORNIS, MaNIS, FishNet, HerpNet, … DiGIR, TAPIR
– Enable biodiversity data via georeferencing
– Quality control and error detection
Thank You!
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