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Development of a computer information system for wildlife conservation in Louisiana, with a prototype system for fishes

Development of a computer information system for wildlife conservation in Louisiana, with a prototype system for fishes. Henry L. Bart Jr. and Nelson E. Rios Tulane University Museum of Natural History Belle Chasse, Louisiana & Frank L. Pezold , III College of Science and Technology

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Development of a computer information system for wildlife conservation in Louisiana, with a prototype system for fishes

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  1. Development of a computer information system for wildlife conservation in Louisiana, with a prototype system for fishes Henry L. Bart Jr. and Nelson E. Rios Tulane University Museum of Natural History Belle Chasse, Louisiana & Frank L. Pezold, III College of Science and Technology Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Texas Funding provided the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

  2. Objectives • Create a prototype Louisiana Wildlife Conservation Network for fish data linking natural history collection and Louisiana State wildlife databases • Georeference data in the University of Louisiana- Monroe Fish Collection and all records from GBIF for species identified at risk in Louisiana. • Develop an online portal to query and map networked data for the purposes of conservation • Develop an online database to capture Louisiana Scientific Collecting Permit data • Utilize the Louisiana Wildlife Conservation Network to analyze trends in occurrence and abundance for Louisiana's threatened and endangered inland fishes over time & model critical habitat areas

  3. Use Cases The Louisiana Fish & Wildlife Conservation portal may be used to: 1) Analyze trends in occurrence and abundance of Louisiana’s rare, threatened and endangered fishes over time 2) Model known and potential critical habitat of all rare and protected fishes 3) Analyze changes in land use and land cover in areas supporting rare and protected fishes 4)Identify areas and/or species in need of greater monitoring and sampling

  4. End Users HTML over HTTP uBio Name Bank XML over HTTP Louisiana Wildlife Conservation portal XML over HTTP XML over HTTP (DwC) Natural History Collections State Wildlife Databases TUMNH ULM FMNH TAMU TNHC Permit DB LADWF LNHP Data Entry portal

  5. IdentifiedBy YearIdentified MonthIdentified DayIdentified TypeStatus CollectorNumber FieldNumber Collector YearCollected MonthCollected DayCollected JulianDay TimeOfDay ContinentOcean Country StateProvince County Locality Longitude Latitude CoordinatePrecision MinimumElevation MaximumElevation MinimumDepth MaximumDepth Sex PreparationType IndividualCount PreviousCatalogNumber RelationshipType RelatedCatalogItem Notes DateLastModified InstitutionCode CollectionCode CatalogNumber ScientificName BasisOfRecord Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Subspecies ScientificNameAuthor Darwin Core (DwC v1.20) • XML Schema designed to facilitate the exchange of information about the geographic occurrence of species and the existence of specimens in collections • Schema used to serve natural history collections data

  6. Capturing Scientific Permit Data

  7. Data Cleaning & Enhancement • Correction of lower administrative units • Georeferencing • Taxonomic resolution • Geospatial enhancements (hucs & eco regions)

  8. Georeferencing Legacy Data Import Locality Data Specimen Database Batch Process via GEOLocate (ver. 3.11) Collaborative Georeferencing Verify & Correct via GEOLocate Export Data

  9. Taxonomic Name Resolution • Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (uBio) • Synonym and common name resolution services • Unresolved names marked for review and examined by graduate students

  10. Web Portal • Public, web-based interface through which fish and wildlife biologists access specimen data • Caches data from DiGIR providers • Textual & geospatial query and visualization • Provides access to “Species Pages” • Web-based interface to allow Scientific Collecting Permit holders to enter collecting data

  11. Conservation summaries produced by graduate students for each of the rare, threatened or endangered species within Louisiana

  12. Species Profiles

  13. Future Directions • Expand the LFWCN system to coverage that includes the entire United States • Expand the number of data providers • Make key features of the system (species distribution and niche modeling, species profile modeling, and population sampling and abundance trends analysis) dynamic, so that users of the system can generate all of these models on the fly as new data are encountered • Improved taxonomic resolution via geography and co-occurring species • Notification Services – Alert me when new records of Redfish in Bayou St. John are collected; Send me a monthly report on collecting activities in Caddo Parish

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