Opportunities for the application of advanced remotely-sensed data in ecological studies of terrestrial animal movement

Neumann, Wiebke; Martinuzzi, Sebastian; Estes, Anna B; Pidgeon, Anna M; Dettki, Holger; Ericsson, Göran; Radeloff, Volker C

doi:10.1186/s40462-015-0036-7

Movement Ecology

Table 2 Sample of ecological animal movement studies that apply remotely-sensed products

From: Opportunities for the application of advanced remotely-sensed data in ecological studies of terrestrial animal movement

Land cover	Terrain	Infrastructure	Climate	Weather	Phenology/ Productivity	Species	Data origin (when available; multiple layers in bold)	Reference
Small scale (e.g., daily movement, residence time, side fidelity, corridors)
X	X					Woodland caribou	LANDSAT, DEM^a	[12]
X	X	X		X		Elk	Snow water equivalents, DEM^w, roads^w, habitat^w	[124]
X	X	X				Bison	Vegetation cover type, geothermal layers^b, DEM	[44]
X	X	X				Roe deer	SPOT, DEM^c, digitized aerial photographs	[50]
X		X				Elk	LANDSAT ^v	[34]
X		X		X	X	African elephant	LANDSAT, TRMM, MODIS (EVI)	[35]
X	X					Moose	Ecoforest maps, DEM	[13]
X	X	X				Brown bear	CORINE, DEM^u, human features^u	[42]
X	X	X				Gray wolf	LANDSAT^d, DEM^e	[39]
X						North Island robin	digitized aerial photographs, satellite images	[24]
X	X	X				Grizzly bear	LANDSAT^f, vegetation inventory data, fire-history maps, DEM	[51]
X						Lion	digitized water wholes	[19]
X	X	X			X	African elephant	digitized static features, DEM^g, SPOT (NDVI)	[40]
		X			X	Jaguar	Roads^h, MODIS ^c (NDVI)	[125]
X		X				American marten	color-infrared aerial photographs	[15]
X						Barred Antshrikes, Rufous-naped Wrens	infrared images^g, orthorectified using DEM	[126]
X		X				Black bear	LANDSAT, color orthophotos, stream water layer^c, topographic maps	[52]
					X	Mule deer	MODIS ^m (NDVI)	[16]
X						Lion	LiDAR^s	[110]
Coarse/seasonal scale (e.g., seasonal range change, migration, dispersal)
	X				X	Wildebeest	DEM, GTOPO30^c, AVHRR/NOAA (NDVI)	[127]
					X	Red deer	NOAA (NDVI)	[128]
	X		X		X	Serengeti Wildebeest	DEM, SRTM, LANDSAT, NOAA, SPOT (NDVI)	[58]
					X	Elk	MODIS (NDVI)	[66]
					X	Five migratory bird species^j,k	AVHRR/NOAA (NDVI)	[60]
					X	Mongolian gazelle	MODIS (NDVI)	[129]
	X		X		X	Saiga antelope	DEM, SRTMⁱ, MODIS (NDVI); WorldClim database (precipitation)	[68]
X					X	Migratory birds	LANDSAT	[14]
X	X		X			Roe deer	EEA-Corine Land cover, CGIAR-DEM/SRTM, NASA-ASTER relative DEM, MODIS (snow)	[38]
				X		Great snipes	NCEP/NCAR provided by NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD^r (wind)	[30]
					X	Four migratory ungulate species^l	AVHRR/NOAA, GIMMS (NDVI)	[31]
	X					Red deer	DEM^t	[130]
	X			X		Golden Eagle, Turkey vulture	DEM, GTOPO30, NARR ^o (wind, temperature)	[29]
				X		Common swift	NCEP/NCAR provided by NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD^r (wind)	[17]
X		X	X		X	African buffalo	MODIS (EVI, tree cover^p), TRMMⁿ, MODIS ^o (fire), vegetation map^q	[41]
X			X		X	Bobolink	MODIS (NDVI), SPOT ^x, water content estimates ^y	[59]
Small and coarse scale
					X	African elephant	AVHRR/NOAA, SPOT (NDVI)	[61]
					X	Sheep	MODIS (NDVI)	[67]

LAND COVER: vegetation, water, streams, forest age, cutblocks, seral stages; TERRAIN: elevation, slope, aspect, ruggedness, solar radiation, soil wetness; INFRASTRUCTURE: roads, buildings, borders, fences, trails; CLIMATE/WEATHER: wind speed, wind direction, precipitation, temperature, cloud; PHENOLOGY/PRODUCTIVITY: NDVI, EVI, tree cover, fire; ^aBritish Columbia Ministry of Crown Lands; ^bThe Watershed Institute (California State University, Monterey Bay, USA), National Hydrographic Dataset; ^cUSGS; ^dFoothills Research Institute Grizzly Bear Research Program; ^eBanff and Kootenay National Park; ^fAlberta Vegetation Inventory; ^gNASA, CARTA program; ^hSelva Maya Zoque y Olmeca database; ⁱSurface Radar Topography Mission; ^jRinging data; ^kLesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler; ^lbarren-ground caribou, Mongolian gazelle, guanacos, moose; ^mWyoming View; ⁿ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov; ^oNational Deneter for Environ Predict; ^pWegmann et al., unpublished data; ^qMendelsohn 1997, An environmental profile and atlas of Caprivi. Windhoek, Namibia: Gamsberg Macmilian; ^rBoulder, Colorado, USA, http://www.cdc.noaa.gov; ^sCarnegie Airborne Observatory, ^tNational Mapping Agency of Norway, ^uLantmäteriet Sweden, ^vAlberta Sustainable Resource Development, ^wSpatial Analysis Center at Yellowstone National Park, ^x http://bioval.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/glc2000/products.php, ^y http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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