Carabids data of Pterostichus flavofemoratus and Carabus depressus in the Gran Paradiso National Park (2006, 2007, 2012, 2013)
Creators
- 1. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- 2. Gran Paradiso National Park *
- 3. Gran Paradiso National Park*
- 4. Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Description
Understanding risks to biodiversity requires predictions of the spatial distribution of species adapting to changing ecosystems and, to that end, earth observations integrating field surveys prove essential as they provide key figures for assessing landscape-wide biodiversity scenarios. Here, we develop, and apply to a relevant case study, a method suited to merge earth/field observations with spatially explicit stochastic metapopulation models to study the near-term ecological dynamics of target species in complex terrains. Our framework incorporates the use of species distribution models for a reasoned estimation of the initial presence of the target species, and accounts for imperfect and incomplete detection of the species presence in the study area. It also uses a metapopulation fitness function derived from earth observation data subsuming the ecological niche of the target species. This framework is applied to contrast occupancy of two species of carabids (Pterostichus flavofemoratus, Carabus depressus) observed in the context of a large ecological monitoring program carried out within the Gran Paradiso National Park (GPNP, Italy). Results suggest that the proposed framework may indeed exploit the hallmarks of spatially explicit ecological approaches and of remote Earth observations. The model reproduces well the observed in-situ data. Moreover, it projects in the near-term the two species' presence both in space and time, highlighting the features of the metapopulation dynamics of colonization and extinction, and their expected trends within verifiable timeframes.
Notes
In-situ data used in the paper "Earth and field observations underpin metapopulation dynamics in complex landscapes: near-term study on Carabids"
- Raw data:
- The raw data contains the following information:
- Species name: Pterostichus flavofemoratus or Carabus depressus
- Valley: the valley where the trap is located inside the Gran Paradiso National Park (Gran Piano, San Besso, Lauson, Orvieilles, Vaudalettaz)
- Plot: the identifier for the plot
- Trap: the identifier for the trap in the plot
- Num: the number of times the species has been counted at the given date
- Date: the date the sampling occurred
- Year: the year the sampling occurred
- month: the month the sampling occurred
- The coordinates of the trap in WGS 84, EPSG:43326
- The raw data contains the following information:
- Processed data:
- The processed data contains the following information, extracted from the raw data:
- Species name: Pterostichus flavofemoratus or Carabus depressus
- Valley: the valley where the trap is located inside the Gran Paradiso National Park (Gran Piano, San Besso, Lauson, Orvieilles, Vaudalettaz)
- Plot: the identifier for the plot
- Observed: the number of times the species was found in the given plot and year (data aggregated over one year and all traps for each plot)
- Sampled: the number of times the plot was sampled in the given year
- Year: the year of interest (2006, 2007, 2012 or 2013)
- The coordinates of the plot in WGS 84, EPSG:43326
- The processed data contains the following information, extracted from the raw data:
Funding provided by: Horizon 2020
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007601
Award Number: 641762
Funding provided by: European Research Council
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000781
Award Number: RINEC-227612
Files
carabids_processed_data.csv
Additional details
Related works
- Is cited by
- 10.1556/ComEc.14.2013.1.3 (DOI)
- 10.1073/pnas.1919580117 (DOI)
- 10.1073/pnas.1919580117 (DOI)