In lifewatch/lwdataexplorer: Access to data from the LifeWatch Data Explorer

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Data from the Lifewatch bird tracking project collected by stations in Ostend, Zeebrugge and Vlissingen.

• Partners: Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), University of Ghent (UGent), University of Antwerpen, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) and University of Amsterdam (UvA)
• Period: since May 2013
• Geographical coverage: Europe and Africa.
• Taxonomic coverage: Herring Gull (HG; Larus argentatus), Lesser Black Backed Gull (LLB; Larus fuscus) and Marshal Harrier (MH; Circus aeruginosus).
• Moratorium: Marshal Harrier data is only available upon registration. Login or register to get full access
• Data quality: Research-grade

How to interpret this dataset

Query options

• Birds or Tag Codes: Tag number that identifies the birds. You can select specific birds or all together with All HG (Herring Gull), All LBB (Lesser Black Backed Gull)¹ or All MH (Marshal Harrier).
• Sample period: Counts aggregated. One of 1 week, 1 day, 60 min, 10 min or 1 min.
• Timeframe: Starting and stopping date for the query.

Available columns

• Code: Code of device on / in individual.
• Time: Time in UTC, beginning of sample timeperiod.
• Species: HG = Herring Gull , LBB = Lesser Black Backed Gull, MH = Marshal Harrier.
• Longitude: Center longitude in decimal degrees, WGS84.
• Latitude: Center latitude in decimal degrees, WGS84.
• Tracklength: Length of the track in meters.
• Maxdist: Maximum distance from nest.
• Tracktime: Length of the track in hours.
• Counts: Total GPS fixes or detections.
• Logcounts: Natural logarithm of the counts.

Abstract

# Get the abstract and/or description from IMIS and print here
library(jsonlite)

dasid <- fromJSON("https://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=5249&show=json")

abstract <- dasid[["datasetrec"]][["EngAbstract"]]
description <- dasid[["datasetrec"]][["EngDescr"]]

if (is.null(abstract) & is.null(description)){

} else if(is.null(abstract) & !is.null(description)){
  out <- description
} else if(!is.null(abstract) & is.null(description)){
  out <- abstract
} else if(!is.null(abstract) & !is.null(description)){
  out <- paste0(abstract, "</br>", description)
}

cat(out)

How to cite these data

library(jsonlite)

# Set base url 5251 4688
url <- "https://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=5249"
dasid <- fromJSON(paste0(url, "&show=json"))

# Build citation.
citation <- dasid[["datasetrec"]][["Citation"]]
citation <- paste0("> ", citation, " ", url, 
                   ". Accessed through the LifeWatch Data Explorer / lwdataexplorer R package."
                   )

# Get license
license <- dasid[["datasetrec"]][["AccConstrDisplay"]]

cat(citation)

cat(paste0("<b>Availability:</b>", license))

Please acknowledge as: This work makes use of the LifeWatch observation data and infrastructure (provided by INBO, UGent, University of Antwerpen, UvA and VLIZ) funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.

These data are also available in the R language with the lwdataxplorer package.

¹ The correct abbreviation for the Lesser Black-Backed Gull is LBBG. We first used LBB and we keep this for reproducibility.

lifewatch/lwdataexplorer documentation built on Aug. 24, 2024, 12:35 a.m.