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DOI: 10.5441/001/1.3hp3s250/2
title: Galapagos Albatrosses-reference-data

description: Dodge S, Bohrer G, Weinzierl R, Davidson SC, Kays R, Douglas D, Cruz S, Han J, Brandes D, Wikelski M (2013) The Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation (Env-DATA) System—linking animal tracks with environmental data. Movement Ecology 1:3. doi:10.1186/2051-3933-1-3
description: Background: The movement of animals is strongly influenced by external factors in their surrounding environment such as weather, habitat types, and human land use. With advances in positioning and sensor technologies, it is now possible to capture animal locations at high spatial and temporal granularities. Likewise, scientists have an increasing access to large volumes of environmental data. Environmental data are heterogeneous in source and format, and are usually obtained at different spatiotemporal scales than movement data. Indeed, there remain scientific and technical challenges in developing linkages between the growing collections of animal movement data and the large repositories of heterogeneous remote sensing observations, as well as in the developments of new statistical and computational methods for the analysis of movement in its environmental context. These challenges include retrieval, indexing, efficient storage, data integration, and analytical techniques. Results: This paper contributes to movement ecology research by presenting a new publicly available system, Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation (Env-DATA), that automates annotation of movement trajectories with ambient atmospheric observations and underlying landscape information. Env-DATA provides a free and easy-to-use platform that eliminates technical difficulties of the annotation processes and relieves end users of a ton of tedious and time-consuming tasks associated with annotation, including data acquisition, data transformation and integration, resampling, and interpolation. The system is illustrated with a case study of Galapagos Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) tracks and their relationship to wind, ocean productivity and chlorophyll concentration. Our case study illustrates why adult albatrosses make long-range trips to preferred, productive areas and how wind assistance facilitates their return flights while their outbound flights are hampered by head winds. Conclusions: The new Env-DATA system enhances Movebank, an open portal of animal tracking data, by automating access to environmental variables from global remote sensing, weather, and ecosystem products from open web resources. The system provides several interpolation methods from the native grid resolution and structure to a global regular grid linked with the movement tracks in space and time. The aim is to facilitate new understanding and predictive capabilities of spatiotemporal patterns of animal movement in response to dynamic and changing environments from local to global scales.
DOI: 10.5441/001/1.nf80477p/2
title: Oceanic navigation in Cory's shearwaters-reference data

description: Gagliardo A, Bried J, Lambardi P, Luschi P, Wikelski M, Bonadonna F (2013) Oceanic navigation in Cory's shearwaters—evidence for a crucial role of olfactory cues for homing after displacement. Journal of Experimental Biology, v. 216, p. 2798-2805. doi:10.1242/jeb.085738
description: Pelagic birds, which wander in the open sea most of the year and often nest on small remote oceanic islands, are able to pinpoint their breeding colony even within an apparently featureless environment, such as the open ocean. The mechanisms underlying their surprising navigational performance are still unknown. In order to investigate the nature of the cues exploited for oceanic navigation, Cory's shearwaters, Calonectris borealis, nesting in the Azores were displaced and released in open ocean at about 800 km from their colony, after being subjected to sensory manipulation. While magnetically disturbed shearwaters showed unaltered navigational performance and behaved similarly to unmanipulated control birds, the shearwaters deprived of their sense of smell were dramatically impaired in orientation and homing. Our data show that seabirds use olfactory cues not only to find their food but also to navigate over vast distances in the ocean.
DOI: 10.5441/001/1.3hp3s250/1
title: Galapagos Albatrosses

description: Dodge S, Bohrer G, Weinzierl R, Davidson SC, Kays R, Douglas D, Cruz S, Han J, Brandes D, Wikelski M (2013) The Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation (Env-DATA) System—linking animal tracks with environmental data. Movement Ecology 1:3. doi:10.1186/2051-3933-1-3
description: Background: The movement of animals is strongly influenced by external factors in their surrounding environment such as weather, habitat types, and human land use. With advances in positioning and sensor technologies, it is now possible to capture animal locations at high spatial and temporal granularities. Likewise, scientists have an increasing access to large volumes of environmental data. Environmental data are heterogeneous in source and format, and are usually obtained at different spatiotemporal scales than movement data. Indeed, there remain scientific and technical challenges in developing linkages between the growing collections of animal movement data and the large repositories of heterogeneous remote sensing observations, as well as in the developments of new statistical and computational methods for the analysis of movement in its environmental context. These challenges include retrieval, indexing, efficient storage, data integration, and analytical techniques. Results: This paper contributes to movement ecology research by presenting a new publicly available system, Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation (Env-DATA), that automates annotation of movement trajectories with ambient atmospheric observations and underlying landscape information. Env-DATA provides a free and easy-to-use platform that eliminates technical difficulties of the annotation processes and relieves end users of a ton of tedious and time-consuming tasks associated with annotation, including data acquisition, data transformation and integration, resampling, and interpolation. The system is illustrated with a case study of Galapagos Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) tracks and their relationship to wind, ocean productivity and chlorophyll concentration. Our case study illustrates why adult albatrosses make long-range trips to preferred, productive areas and how wind assistance facilitates their return flights while their outbound flights are hampered by head winds. Conclusions: The new Env-DATA system enhances Movebank, an open portal of animal tracking data, by automating access to environmental variables from global remote sensing, weather, and ecosystem products from open web resources. The system provides several interpolation methods from the native grid resolution and structure to a global regular grid linked with the movement tracks in space and time. The aim is to facilitate new understanding and predictive capabilities of spatiotemporal patterns of animal movement in response to dynamic and changing environments from local to global scales.
DOI: 10.5441/001/1.nf80477p/1
title: Oceanic navigation in Cory's shearwaters

description: Gagliardo A, Bried J, Lambardi P, Luschi P, Wikelski M, Bonadonna F (2013) Oceanic navigation in Cory's shearwaters—evidence for a crucial role of olfactory cues for homing after displacement. Journal of Experimental Biology, v. 216, p. 2798-2805. doi:10.1242/jeb.085738
description: Pelagic birds, which wander in the open sea most of the year and often nest on small remote oceanic islands, are able to pinpoint their breeding colony even within an apparently featureless environment, such as the open ocean. The mechanisms underlying their surprising navigational performance are still unknown. In order to investigate the nature of the cues exploited for oceanic navigation, Cory's shearwaters, Calonectris borealis, nesting in the Azores were displaced and released in open ocean at about 800 km from their colony, after being subjected to sensory manipulation. While magnetically disturbed shearwaters showed unaltered navigational performance and behaved similarly to unmanipulated control birds, the shearwaters deprived of their sense of smell were dramatically impaired in orientation and homing. Our data show that seabirds use olfactory cues not only to find their food but also to navigate over vast distances in the ocean.
DOI: 10.5284/1020064
title: Cult, Religion and Pilgrimage. Archaeological Investigations at the Neolithic and Bronze Age Monument complex of Thornborough, North Yorkshire

description: The digital appendices supplement a published paper report (Harding, J. 2013. Cult, Religion, and Pilgrimage: Archaeological Investigations at the Neolithic and Bronze Age Monument Complex of Thornborough, North Yorkshire. York: Council for British Archaeology Research Report 174) by providing methodological statements, detailed data, and specialist description, analysis and discussion. The contents of the five appendices are as follows: topographic survey and geophysical prospection at the monuments and possible monuments (D1); geophysical prospection, total collection, and test-pitting at selected lithic scatters (D2); worked lithics from fieldwalking and excavations (D3); the pottery, metalwork, human bone, land snails, and other environmental evidence from the excavations (D4); and the radiocarbon dating of the excavated monuments (D5).
DOI: 10.5441/001/1.f3550b4f/1
title: Migratory Burchell's zebra (Equus burchellii) in northern Botswana

description: Bartlam-Brooks HLA, Beck PSA, Bohrer G, Harris S (2013) In search of greener pastures—using satellite images to predict the effects of environmental change on zebra migration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences v 188, p 1–11. doi:10.1002/jgrg.20096
description: Historically, ungulate migrations occurred in most grassland and boreal woodland ecosystems, but many have been lost due to increasing habitat loss and fragmentation. With the rate of environmental change increasing, identifying and prioritizing migration routes for conservation has taken on a new urgency. Understanding the cues that drive long-distance animal movements is critical to predicting the fate of migrations under different environmental change scenarios and how large migratory herbivores will respond to increasing resource heterogeneity and anthropogenic influences. We used an individual-based modeling approach to investigate the influence of environmental conditions, monitored using satellite data, on departure date and movement speed of migrating zebras in Botswana. Daily zebra movements between dry and rainy season ranges were annotated with coincident observations of precipitation from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission data set and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). An array of increasingly complex movement models representing alternative hypotheses regarding the environmental cues and controls for movement was parameterized and tested. The best and most justified model predicted daily zebra movement as two linear functions of precipitation rate and NDVI and included a modeled departure date as a function of cumulative precipitation. The model was highly successful at replicating both the timing and pace of seven actual migrations observed using GPS telemetry (R2 = 0.914). It shows how zebras rapidly adjust their movement to changing environmental conditions during migration and are able to reverse migration to avoid adverse conditions or exploit renewed resource availability, a nomadic behavior which should lend them a degree of resilience to climate and environmental change. Our results demonstrate how competing individual-based migration models, informed by freely available satellite data, can be used to evaluate the weight of evidence for multiple hypotheses regarding the use of environmental cues in animal movement. This modeling framework can be applied to quantify how animals adapt the timing and pace of their movements to prevailing environmental conditions and to forecast migrations in near real time or under alternative environmental scenarios.
DOI: 10.5441/001/1.f3550b4f/2
title: Migratory Burchell's zebra (Equus burchellii) in northern Botswana-reference data

description: Bartlam-Brooks HLA, Beck PSA, Bohrer G, Harris S (2013) In search of greener pastures—using satellite images to predict the effects of environmental change on zebra migration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences v 188, p 1–11. doi:10.1002/jgrg.20096
description: Historically, ungulate migrations occurred in most grassland and boreal woodland ecosystems, but many have been lost due to increasing habitat loss and fragmentation. With the rate of environmental change increasing, identifying and prioritizing migration routes for conservation has taken on a new urgency. Understanding the cues that drive long-distance animal movements is critical to predicting the fate of migrations under different environmental change scenarios and how large migratory herbivores will respond to increasing resource heterogeneity and anthropogenic influences. We used an individual-based modeling approach to investigate the influence of environmental conditions, monitored using satellite data, on departure date and movement speed of migrating zebras in Botswana. Daily zebra movements between dry and rainy season ranges were annotated with coincident observations of precipitation from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission data set and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). An array of increasingly complex movement models representing alternative hypotheses regarding the environmental cues and controls for movement was parameterized and tested. The best and most justified model predicted daily zebra movement as two linear functions of precipitation rate and NDVI and included a modeled departure date as a function of cumulative precipitation. The model was highly successful at replicating both the timing and pace of seven actual migrations observed using GPS telemetry (R2 = 0.914). It shows how zebras rapidly adjust their movement to changing environmental conditions during migration and are able to reverse migration to avoid adverse conditions or exploit renewed resource availability, a nomadic behavior which should lend them a degree of resilience to climate and environmental change. Our results demonstrate how competing individual-based migration models, informed by freely available satellite data, can be used to evaluate the weight of evidence for multiple hypotheses regarding the use of environmental cues in animal movement. This modeling framework can be applied to quantify how animals adapt the timing and pace of their movements to prevailing environmental conditions and to forecast migrations in near real time or under alternative environmental scenarios.
DOI: 10.5284/1020241
title: Number 1 Poultry (ONE 94)

description: The site of 1 Poultry is located near the Bank of England, in the heart of the City of London. During the 1990s, one of the largest excavations in the City recovered a remarkable archaeological sequence from the 1st to the 20th century AD. This was augmented by findings from nearby sites at Bucklersbury, Lothbury, Lombard Street, 72-75 Cheapside, 76-80 Cheapside, 36-37 King Street and Mansion House. 1 Poultry lies immediately west of the point where the main east-west road through Roman London bridged the Walbrook stream and uncovered an unparalleled sequence of buildings, roads, and open spaces. A timber drain of AD 47 beneath the main road is the earliest, securely dated structure yet known from Londinium, and a pottery shop, destroyed in the Boudican revolt, gives a snapshot of life in AD 60/61. A 2nd-century AD writing tablet preserves the only evidence for the sale of a slave found in Britain to date, while the 3rd- and 4th-century AD buildings on the site provide a rare demonstration of the continuities and changes that occurred in Roman urban life.
DOI: 10.5284/1020237
title: Archaeological landscapes of east London: six multi-period sites excavated in advance of gravel quarrying in the London Borough of Havering

description: This project assessed, analysed and published six multi-period archaeological sites, which were investigated between 1963 and 1997 in advance of quarrying of various areas of the lower Thames Pleistocene gravel terraces within the Rainham and Upminster area of the London Borough of Havering. Five of these sites were investigated by the staff of Passmore Edwards Museum, later Newham Museums Archaeology Service. These sites lie within the context of a geographical zone (30km²) or study area.
DOI: 10.5284/1020240
title: Number 1 Poultry (ONE 94)

description: The site of 1 Poultry is located near the Bank of England, in the heart of the City of London. During the 1990s, one of the largest excavations in the City recovered a remarkable archaeological sequence from the 1st to the 20th century AD. This was augmented by findings from nearby sites at Bucklersbury, Lothbury, Lombard Street, 72-75 Cheapside, 76-80 Cheapside, 36-37 King Street and Mansion House. 1 Poultry lies immediately west of the point where the main east-west road through Roman London bridged the Walbrook stream and uncovered an unparalleled sequence of buildings, roads, and open spaces. A timber drain of AD 47 beneath the main road is the earliest, securely dated structure yet known from Londinium, and a pottery shop, destroyed in the Boudican revolt, gives a snapshot of life in AD 60/61. A 2nd-century AD writing tablet preserves the only evidence for the sale of a slave found in Britain to date, while the 3rd- and 4th-century AD buildings on the site provide a rare demonstration of the continuities and changes that occurred in Roman urban life.
DOI: 10.5284/1020245
title: Combe Down Stone Mines

description: Between 2000 and 2009 Oxford Archaeology carried out an archaeological recording action during the stabilisation of the post-medieval underground stone mines at Combe Down, Bath. The mines, which primarily date from the mid 18th to early 20th centuries, had begun to collapse endangering the stability of the settlement above and OA's works were part of a major engineering project which stabilised and ultimately infilled the mine. The works were carried (as a Watching Brief) during the construction of a network of supported engineering roadways, constructed of wood and steel, which were inserted into the mine initially to provide safe access to all areas of the mine and latterly to facilitate the filling of the mines with foam concrete. The recording was primarily by drawn and photographic methods although a range of other techniques were employed to augment the traditional techniques. Except at the very end of the project, when specially constructed roadways were constructed to allow safe sampling of some of the key deposits, the work was carried out entirely from the shelter of the engineering roadways and no archaeological excavation was carried out. The works were reported upon in a series of interim reports and at the completion of the project the results formed the basis of a published Archaeological Monograph. All hard copy site records including context sheets, drawings, primary finds data and catalogues of records were security copied by PdFA and uploaded to the OA web library at http://library.thehumanjourney.net/765. A backup copy is lodged with ADS as part of this deposit. The archive also contains scanned copies of the interim report. Specialists reports and other project documentation.
DOI: 10.5284/1020244
title: Number 1 Poultry (ONE 94)

description: The site of 1 Poultry is located near the Bank of England, in the heart of the City of London. During the 1990s, one of the largest excavations in the City recovered a remarkable archaeological sequence from the 1st to the 20th century AD. This was augmented by findings from nearby sites at Bucklersbury, Lothbury, Lombard Street, 72-75 Cheapside, 76-80 Cheapside, 36-37 King Street and Mansion House. 1 Poultry lies immediately west of the point where the main east-west road through Roman London bridged the Walbrook stream and uncovered an unparalleled sequence of buildings, roads, and open spaces. A timber drain of AD 47 beneath the main road is the earliest, securely dated structure yet known from Londinium, and a pottery shop, destroyed in the Boudican revolt, gives a snapshot of life in AD 60/61. A 2nd-century AD writing tablet preserves the only evidence for the sale of a slave found in Britain to date, while the 3rd- and 4th-century AD buildings on the site provide a rare demonstration of the continuities and changes that occurred in Roman urban life.
DOI: 10.5884/11653
title: Long-term oceanic observatories (moorings) in the Beaufort Sea during the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study, 2002-2004

description: Eight moorings were deployed in the Beaufort Sea during autumn 2002 and were recovered in autumn 2003. In autumn 2003, 16 moorings were deployed and recovered in autumn 2004. Mooring sites included: Mackenzie Shelf (North-Western to North-Eastern), Mackenzie Shelf slope, Kugmallit Valley, Canada Basin, Mackenzie Canyon, Amundsen Gulf (West to East), and Franklin Bay/cape Bathurst area. Bottom depth of deployment sites varied between 63 and 1234 m. Mooring lines were equipped with various oceanographic instruments attached at different depths from 27 m to a maximum of 1234 m. Moored instruments included ALEC conductivity-temperature-turbidity-chlorophyll-PAR sensors, SeaBird SB37 conductivity-temperature sensors, RMC7 and RCM11 current meters, WH-ADCP (300kHz) current profilers, and NIPR and Technicap sediment traps. The datasets available were quality controlled, and have been used in several publications. Variables available include water temperature, conductivity (salinity), density, PAR, Chla, turbidity, oxygen and current velocity (speed and direction). Sediment trap collections were used to estimate downward fluxes of particles, and datasets are described in Metadata CCIN 1076 (Vertical particle flux data in the Beaufort Sea: 2002-2010). Data are also available at the Institute of Ocean Sciences (DFO-Canada).
description: Purpose: To monitor changes in physical, biological and geochemical properties of the Canadian Arctic waters, ocean observatories (moorings) were deployed in the Beaufort Sea as part of the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES), and continued after 2004 as part of the ArcticNet program. These moorings are the oceanic equivalent of atmospheric meteorological stations. The data are used to describe the seasonal and annual variations in the Arctic environment and its local ecosystems. This, in turn, enables us to understand how, and how quickly, global warming is affecting the Arctic.
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