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Building Biodiversity Information Infrastructure: Anticipating Avian Influenza Spread Patterns A. Townsend Peterson University of Kansas

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Page 1: Building Biodiversity Information Infrastructure · 2009-04-08 · – Breeding Bird Survey ‐ ~15M records – Christmas Bird Count ‐ ~20M records – Bird Banding Laboratory

Building Biodiversity  Information Infrastructure:

Anticipating Avian Influenza Spread Patterns

A. Townsend Peterson

University of Kansas

Page 2: Building Biodiversity Information Infrastructure · 2009-04-08 · – Breeding Bird Survey ‐ ~15M records – Christmas Bird Count ‐ ~20M records – Bird Banding Laboratory

H5N1 Spread

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What Do We Know?

Page 4: Building Biodiversity Information Infrastructure · 2009-04-08 · – Breeding Bird Survey ‐ ~15M records – Christmas Bird Count ‐ ~20M records – Bird Banding Laboratory

Characterize Migratory Bird  Movements: Massive Data Assembly

• Bird Occurrence Data – Summer and Winter– Breeding Bird Survey ‐

~15M records

– Christmas Bird Count ‐

~20M records– Bird Banding Laboratory Data ‐

~65M records

• ~13M recoveries, much less that connect seasons

• Environmental Data –

support interpolation of  species’

ranges

– Climate data, topography/landform data, surface  reflectance (NDVI) data

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Data Available

Page 6: Building Biodiversity Information Infrastructure · 2009-04-08 · – Breeding Bird Survey ‐ ~15M records – Christmas Bird Count ‐ ~20M records – Bird Banding Laboratory

Fill the Gap: Mexico• “Mexico Atlas”

– 350,000 specimens, 68 natural history museums

– 16 years of work– 202,000 records now georeferenced

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Integrating Museums

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Key Seasonal Distribution Info

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Forecasting AI Spread in America

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7 Arctic Waterfowl Species

Birds from westernmost Alaska 

migrate almost exclusively to  

California

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7 Arctic Waterfowl Species

But just a relatively small distance 

inland, Alaskan birds migrate both to 

California and broadly into the 

Interior

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7 Arctic Waterfowl Species

Window 3

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7 Arctic Waterfowl Species

Window 4

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7 Arctic Waterfowl Species

Window 6 … note decreasing 

importance of migration to California 

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7 Arctic Waterfowl Species

Window 7 … now essentially 

exclusively Interior …

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7 Arctic Waterfowl Species

Window 8 – note East Coast begins to 

receive migrants

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7 Arctic Waterfowl Species

Window 10 – note exclusively East 

Coast now

Page 18: Building Biodiversity Information Infrastructure · 2009-04-08 · – Breeding Bird Survey ‐ ~15M records – Christmas Bird Count ‐ ~20M records – Bird Banding Laboratory

Lessons Learned• Vast amounts of biodiversity information exist

• But not always in useful formats

• Biodiversity challenges such as AI demand  prompt and efficient responses

• Need to build biodiversity data infrastructure:– Digitize biodiversity data– Integrate biodiversity data among institutions 

• ORNIS, MaNIS, FishNet, HerpNet, …

DiGIR, TAPIR

– Enable biodiversity data via georeferencing– Quality control and error detection

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Thank [email protected]