The Habitat Dynamics Project examines how short and long-term changes in the environment affect the distribution and survival of wildlife populations.
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An overarching strategy of the Project is to develop new methods that integrate satellite telemetry, remote sensing, meteorology, and GIS technologies. Studies focus on Department of Interior priorities by emphasizing the growing need to understand how changes in climate or land use practices affect wildlife migrations, habitat availability, habitat quality, and population dynamics. Climate is an overarching force that shapes suitability of wildlife habitat resources. Understanding linkages between the physical and biological environment is critical for making informed management decisions in the face of accelerating climate change and expanding human activities.
Emphasis of the Habitat Dynamics Project is placed on the Arctic, where species synchronize their reproductive and migration cycles with the landscape’s pronounced seasonal changes. The Project uses a variety of environmental data sources derived primarily from satellite remote sensing, and a variety of wildlife data through collaborations with other principal investigators.
Most studies fall under one of three general themes:
- observed and future changes in Arctic sea ice and the implications to polar bears and walruses
- variations and trends in the timing of spring vegetation growth and the implications to herbivores such as caribou and geese
- dynamics of daily wind conditions and the implications to bird migrations.
Links
Near-real-time sea ice monitoring and analysis
Arctic Sea Ice News, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Ice Analysis Products, National Ice Center
Arctic Sea-Ice Monitor, Arctic Data System
Daily AMSR2 Sea Ice Maps, University of Bremen
Future sea ice forecasts and projections
IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Changes in Sea Ice Cover, IPCC (see Chapter 12, Section 12.4.6.1)
Projections of an Ice-Diminished Arctic Ocean, Polar Science Center, UW
Sea Ice Prediction Network, ARCUS
Monitoring Vegetation Phenology with NDVI
Global NDVI time-series data, 1982-2016, Univ of Arizona
Global NDVI time-series data, GIMMS_3g, NASA
Global MODIS Global Subsets & Visualization , Oakridge National Lab
U.S. and Alaska eMODIS time series, USGS, 2000-present
U.S. Phenology Metrics, USGS
Alaska Phenology Metrics, GINA, Univ of Alaska
NOAA Global Vegetation Health, 1982-present
Climate data and data visualization portals
Large collection of web sites, variables and time scales, NOAA
Climate explorer, KNMI
Global wind, ocean current, SST dynamics, Cameron Beccario©
Global weather visualization portal
Satellite tracking animals
Satellite tracking data archive and acquisition portal, Movebank.org
Satellite tracking and analysis tool, Seaturtle.org
Arctic wildlife tracking data, USGS
The Argos System
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are data or web applications associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Rapid environmental change drives increased land use by an Arctic marine predator
Multi-decadal trends in spring arrival of avian migrants to the central Arctic coast of Alaska: Effects of environmental and ecological factors
Polar bear population dynamics in the southern Beaufort Sea during a period of sea ice decline
Evaluating and ranking threats to the long-term persistence of polar bears
Density dependence and phenological mismatch: consequences for growth and survival of sub-arctic nesting Canada Geese
Hemispheric-scale wind selection facilitates bar-tailed godwit circum-migration of the Pacific
Evaluation of potential protective factors against metabolic syndrome in bottlenose dolphins:feeding and activity patterns of dolphins in Sarasota Bay, Florida
Variation in the response of an Arctic top predator experiencing habitat loss: Feeding and reproductive ecology of two polar bear populations
Migration and wintering areas of American Bitterns (Botaurus lentiginosus) that summer in central North America as determined by satellite and radio telemetry, 1998-2003
Movements of wild ruddy shelducks in the Central Asian Flyway and their spatial relationship to outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1
Patterns of social association in the franciscana, Pontoporia blainvillei
Movements and dive patterns of short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) released from a mass stranding in the Florida Keys
The Habitat Dynamics Project examines how short and long-term changes in the environment affect the distribution and survival of wildlife populations.
Return to Ecosystems >> Marine Ecosystems or Terrestrial Ecosystems
An overarching strategy of the Project is to develop new methods that integrate satellite telemetry, remote sensing, meteorology, and GIS technologies. Studies focus on Department of Interior priorities by emphasizing the growing need to understand how changes in climate or land use practices affect wildlife migrations, habitat availability, habitat quality, and population dynamics. Climate is an overarching force that shapes suitability of wildlife habitat resources. Understanding linkages between the physical and biological environment is critical for making informed management decisions in the face of accelerating climate change and expanding human activities.
Emphasis of the Habitat Dynamics Project is placed on the Arctic, where species synchronize their reproductive and migration cycles with the landscape’s pronounced seasonal changes. The Project uses a variety of environmental data sources derived primarily from satellite remote sensing, and a variety of wildlife data through collaborations with other principal investigators.
Most studies fall under one of three general themes:
- observed and future changes in Arctic sea ice and the implications to polar bears and walruses
- variations and trends in the timing of spring vegetation growth and the implications to herbivores such as caribou and geese
- dynamics of daily wind conditions and the implications to bird migrations.
Links
Near-real-time sea ice monitoring and analysis
Arctic Sea Ice News, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Ice Analysis Products, National Ice Center
Arctic Sea-Ice Monitor, Arctic Data System
Daily AMSR2 Sea Ice Maps, University of Bremen
Future sea ice forecasts and projections
IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Changes in Sea Ice Cover, IPCC (see Chapter 12, Section 12.4.6.1)
Projections of an Ice-Diminished Arctic Ocean, Polar Science Center, UW
Sea Ice Prediction Network, ARCUS
Monitoring Vegetation Phenology with NDVI
Global NDVI time-series data, 1982-2016, Univ of Arizona
Global NDVI time-series data, GIMMS_3g, NASA
Global MODIS Global Subsets & Visualization , Oakridge National Lab
U.S. and Alaska eMODIS time series, USGS, 2000-present
U.S. Phenology Metrics, USGS
Alaska Phenology Metrics, GINA, Univ of Alaska
NOAA Global Vegetation Health, 1982-present
Climate data and data visualization portals
Large collection of web sites, variables and time scales, NOAA
Climate explorer, KNMI
Global wind, ocean current, SST dynamics, Cameron Beccario©
Global weather visualization portal
Satellite tracking animals
Satellite tracking data archive and acquisition portal, Movebank.org
Satellite tracking and analysis tool, Seaturtle.org
Arctic wildlife tracking data, USGS
The Argos System
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are data or web applications associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.