Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: The SPI‐Birds data hub

The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas of science is drastically slowed and hindered by a lack of standards and networking programmes. Long‐term studies of individually marked animals are not an exception. These studies are especially important as instrumental for understanding...

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Published in:	Journal of Animal Ecology Vol. 90; no. 9; pp. 2147 - 2160
Main Authors:	Culina, Antica, Bailey, Liam D., Burgess, Malcolm D., Charmantier, Anne, Cole, Ella F., Eeva, Tapio, Matthysen, Erik, Nater, Chloé R., Sheldon, Ben C., Sæther, Bernt‐Erik, Vriend, Stefan J. G., Adamík, Peter, Aplin, Lucy M., Angulo, Elena, Artemyev, Alexandr, Barba, Emilio, Barišić, Sanja, Belda, Eduardo, Bleu, Josefa, Both, Christiaan, Bouwhuis, Sandra, Branston, Claire J., Broggi, Juli, Burke, Terry, Bushuev, Andrey, Camacho, Carlos, Campobello, Daniela, Canal, David, Cantarero, Alejandro, Caro, Samuel P., Chaine, Alexis, Cichoń, Mariusz, Cusimano, Camillo A., Deimel, Caroline, Dhondt, André A., Dingemanse, Niels J., Doligez, Blandine, Dominoni, Davide M., Doutrelant, Claire, Dubiec, Anna, Eens, Marcel, Einar Erikstad, Kjell, Espín, Silvia, Farine, Damien R., Kavak Gülbeyaz, Pınar, Grégoire, Arnaud, Hartley, Ian R., Hau, Michaela, Hegyi, Gergely, Hille, Sabine, Holtmann, Benedikt, Ilyina, Tatyana, Isaksson, Caroline, Iserbyt, Arne, Ivankina, Elena, Kempenaers, Bart, Kerimov, Anvar, Komdeur, Jan, Korsten, Peter, Krist, Miloš, Lambrechts, Marcel, Lara, Carlos E., Leivits, Agu, Liker, András, Lodjak, Jaanis, Mainwaring, Mark C., Mänd, Raivo, Massa, Bruno, Massemin, Sylvie, Martínez‐Padilla, Jesús, Mazgajski, Tomasz D., Moreno, Juan, Mouchet, Alexia, Nilsson, Jan‐Åke, Nilsson, Johan F., Cláudia Norte, Ana, Oers, Kees, Orell, Markku, Potti, Jaime, Quinn, John L., Réale, Denis, Kristin Reiertsen, Tone, Rosivall, Balázs, Russell, Andrew F, Sánchez‐Virosta, Pablo, Santos, Eduardo S. A., Schroeder, Julia, Senar, Juan Carlos, Seress, Gábor, Slagsvold, Tore, Szulkin, Marta, Teplitsky, Céline, Tolstoguzov, Andrey, Török, János, Valcu, Mihai, Vatka, Emma, Watson, Hannah, Yuta, Teru, Zamora‐Marín, José M., Visser, Marcel E.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Wiley 01.09.2021 Blackwell Publishing Ltd John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects:	05 Environmental Sciences 06 Biological Sciences 07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences 15.- Proteger, restaurar y promover la utilización sostenible de los ecosistemas terrestres, gestionar de manera sostenible los bosques, combatir la desertificación y detener y revertir la degradación de la tierra, y frenar la pérdida de diversidad biológica [SDE] Environmental Sciences ALTER animal ecology Animal Science and Zoology Animals Biologi Biological Sciences Biology Birds birds ; data standards ; database ; FAIR data ; long-term studies ; meta-data standards ; research network Chemistry CLIMATE-CHANGE CLUTCH-SIZE Community involvement community service Data integration Data integrity Data loss Data management Data standards database ; meta-data standards ; long-term studies ; birds ; data standards ; FAIR data ; research network Databases, Factual ddc:570 Demography Ecological studies Ecology Ecology (including Biodiversity Conservation) Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology, evolutionary biology Ekologi Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology EVOLUTION factual FAIR data Format geographical distribution GREAT TITS information management Integration international landscapes Life Sciences & Biomedicine long long&#8208 Long-term studies MESH: animals MESH: birds MESH: databases MESH: databases, factual MESH: metadata meta meta&#8208 Meta-data standards Metadata Natural Sciences Naturvetenskap PERSONALITY Plan_S-Compliant_OA Population studies POPULATIONS Research network RESPONSES Science & Technology SELECTION Synthesis term studies Uniqueness VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 VDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Zoology and botany: 480 VDP::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 VDP::Zoology and botany: 480 Zoologi ZOOLOGIA Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 [VDP] Zoology Zoology and botany: 480 [VDP] database data standards research network meta-data standards birds FAIR data long-term studies
ISSN:	0021-8790, 1365-2656, 1365-2656
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Summary:	The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas of science is drastically slowed and hindered by a lack of standards and networking programmes. Long‐term studies of individually marked animals are not an exception. These studies are especially important as instrumental for understanding evolutionary and ecological processes in the wild. Furthermore, their number and global distribution provides a unique opportunity to assess the generality of patterns and to address broad‐scale global issues (e.g. climate change). To solve data integration issues and enable a new scale of ecological and evolutionary research based on long‐term studies of birds, we have created the SPI‐Birds Network and Database (www.spibirds.org)—a large‐scale initiative that connects data from, and researchers working on, studies of wild populations of individually recognizable (usually ringed) birds. Within year and a half since the establishment, SPI‐Birds has recruited over 120 members, and currently hosts data on almost 1.5 million individual birds collected in 80 populations over 2,000 cumulative years, and counting. SPI‐Birds acts as a data hub and a catalogue of studied populations. It prevents data loss, secures easy data finding, use and integration and thus facilitates collaboration and synthesis. We provide community‐derived data and meta‐data standards and improve data integrity guided by the principles of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR), and aligned with the existing metadata languages (e.g. ecological meta‐data language). The encouraging community involvement stems from SPI‐Bird's decentralized approach: research groups retain full control over data use and their way of data management, while SPI‐Birds creates tailored pipelines to convert each unique data format into a standard format. We outline the lessons learned, so that other communities (e.g. those working on other taxa) can adapt our successful model. Creating community‐specific hubs (such as ours, COMADRE for animal demography, etc.) will aid much‐needed large‐scale ecological data integration. SPI‐Birds is a global‐scale initiative that creates meta‐data and data standards for data collected in populations of uniquely marked individuals that are followed over years. The authors host data on nearly 1.5 million birds collected over cumulative 2000 years. Everyone can search for populations and request their data via SPI‐Birds database.
Bibliography:	Handling Editor Roberto Salguero‐Gómez ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 Funding informationThe SPI‐Birds have been supported by an NWO personal grant (grant number 016.Veni.181.054) to A.C., and a Research Council of Norway grant: 223257 (SFF‐III) and 267511 (EVOCLIM). Handling Editor Roberto Salguero‐Gómez
ISSN:	0021-8790 1365-2656 1365-2656
DOI:	10.1111/1365-2656.13388