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We describe the use of structured graphs for the visual exploration of biodiversity data. A graph consists of a set of nodes, representing entities of interest, linked by edges showing relationships between those entities. For biodiversity data, the nodes are typically chosen to represent taxa…
New techniques have been developed to aid in the remote sensing of type … II Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs) using NASA’s MODIS (MODerate resolution … Imaging Spectroradiometer) nadir imaging satellite.
Southern elephant seals are important apex … predators in a highly variable and unpredictable marine … environment. In the presence of resource limitation, foraging behaviours evolve to reduce intraspecific … competition increasing a species’ overall … probability of successful foraging.
We filmed Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus as they pursuit dived on a submerged Weddell Seal Leptonychotes weddellii … carcass.
The process of marking otherwise indistinguishable animals … as individuals (and following them through subsequent … phases of their lives) has been central to numerous advances … in animal ecology, management, and conservation (Caughley … and Gunn 1996). Indeed…