The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project
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Ropert-Coudert, Yan
Van de Putte, Anton P.
Reisinger, Ryan R.
Bornemann, Horst
Charrassin, Jean-Benoit
Costa, Daniel P.
Danis, Bruno
Huckstadt, Luis A .
Huckstadt, Luis A.
Jonsen, Ian D.
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Nature Publishing Group
Abstract
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.
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Supplementary Figure S1: Filtered location data (black) and tag deployment locations (red) for each species.
Maps are Lambert Azimuthal projections extending from 90° S to 20° S.
Supplementary Table S1: Names and coordinates of the major study sites in the Southern Ocean and on the Antarctic Continent where tracking devices were deployed on the selected species (indicated by their 4-letter codes in the last column).
Online Table 1: Description of fields (column names) in the metadata and data files.
Supplementary Table S1: Names and coordinates of the major study sites in the Southern Ocean and on the Antarctic Continent where tracking devices were deployed on the selected species (indicated by their 4-letter codes in the last column).
Online Table 1: Description of fields (column names) in the metadata and data files.
Keywords
Tracking data, Antarctic, Conservation biology, Ecosystem ecology, Retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data (RAATD), Meso-predators, Top-predators, Areas of ecological significance, Southern Ocean
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Ropert-Coudert, Y., Van de Putte, A.P., Reisinger, R.R. et al. The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project. Scientific Data 7, 94 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0406-x.