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Organized Oral Session

Session: An individual eye on a global problem: Unique insights from animal tracking on biodiversity responses to climatic change

OOS 11-6 - Predicting global biodiversity dynamics with animal sensors

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

11:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

Location: 520E

Presenting Author(s)

WJ

Walter Jetz

Professor
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Co-Author(s)

RO

Ruth Oliver

Yale University, United States
SY

Scott W. Yanco

Yale University, United States
MW

Martin Wikelski

director
Max Planck Institute for animal behavior
BC

Ben Carlson

Yale University
DE

Diego Ellis-Soto

Yale University, United States

Background/Question/Methods
Novel biological and environmental observing technologies, and the unprecedented flows of ´Big data´ they provide, are poised to transform our ability to document and understand the process and dynamics of biological patterns globally. New GPS tracking technologies in particular have the potential to deliver data on fine-scale animal movement data at near-global extent.

Results/Conclusions
We envision a global network of animal sentinels of environmental change. We discuss the technologies and informatics solutions that can support such a vision and highlight select case studies that demonstrate this potential. Linked with remotely sensed environmental and onboard sensor data, animal GPS tracking offers a biological lens on species responses to rapidly changing world and can inform about habitat integrity and connectivity.