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Development of a computer information system for wildlife conservation in
Louisiana, with a prototype system for fishes
Henry L. Bart Jr. and Nelson E. RiosTulane University Museum of Natural
HistoryBelle Chasse, Louisiana
&Frank L. Pezold, III
College of Science and TechnologyTexas A&M University Corpus Christi, Texas
Funding provided the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
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
Use CasesThe 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
TAMUFMNHULMTUMNH TNHC LADWF LNHPPermit
DB
Louisiana Wildlife Conservation portal
XML over HTTP (DwC)
XML over HTTP
End Users
Natural History Collections State Wildlife Databases
HTML over HTTP
uBio Name Bank
XML over HTTP
Data Entry portal
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
DateLastModifiedInstitutionCodeCollectionCodeCatalogNumber ScientificNameBasisOfRecordKingdomPhylumClassOrderFamilyGenusSpeciesSubspeciesScientificNameAuthor
CountyLocalityLongitudeLatitudeCoordinatePrecisionMinimumElevationMaximumElevationMinimumDepthMaximumDepthSexPreparationTypeIndividualCountPreviousCatalogNumber RelationshipTypeRelatedCatalogItemNotes
IdentifiedByYearIdentifiedMonthIdentifiedDayIdentifiedTypeStatusCollectorNumberFieldNumberCollectorYearCollectedMonthCollectedDayCollectedJulianDayTimeOfDayContinentOceanCountryStateProvince
Data Cleaning & Enhancement
1) Correction of lower administrative units
2) Georeferencing3) Taxonomic resolution4) Geospatial enhancements (hucs &
eco regions)
Georeferencing Legacy DataImport
Locality Data
Batch Process via GEOLocate
(ver. 3.11)
Verify & Correct via GEOLocateExport Data
SpecimenDatabase
Collaborative Georeferencing
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
Web PortalPublic, web-based interface through which
fish and wildlife biologists access specimen data1) Caches data from DiGIR providers2) Textual & geospatial query and
visualization3) Provides access to “Species Pages” 4) Web-based interface to allow Scientific
Collecting Permit holders to enter collecting data
Conservation summaries produced by graduate students for each of the rare, threatened or endangered species within Louisiana
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