1. Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: the SPI-Birds data hub
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Tomasz D. Mazgajski, Jesús Martínez-Padilla, Gábor Seress, Miloš Krist, Davide M. Dominoni, Peter Adamík, Camillo Cusimano, Juli Broggi, Zuzana Zajková, Ana Cláudia Norte, Samuel P. Caro, Pınar Kavak Gülbeyaz, Erik Matthysen, Arnaud Grégoire, Marcel M. Lambrechts, Vallo Tilgar, Sabine Marlene Hille, Kees van Oers, Chloé R. Nater, Markku Orell, Alexandr Artemyev, Szymon M. Drobniak, Julia Schroeder, Hannah Watson, Claire Doutrelant, Tone Kristin Reiertsen, Eduardo J. Belda, Carlos E. Lara, Jaime Potti, Antica Culina, Caroline Deimel, C. Can Bilgin, Kjell Einar Erikstad, Terry Burke, Seppo Rytkönen, Liam D. Bailey, Miroslav Král, José M. Zamora-Marín, Marko Mägi, T.A. Ilyina, A.V. Bushuev, Andrew F. Russell, Malcolm D. Burgess, John L. Quinn, Jan-Åke Nilsson, André A. Dhondt, Peter Korsten, Denis Réale, Josefa Bleu, Caroline Isaksson, Jaanis Lodjak, Sandra Bouwhuis, Bruno Massa, Mark C. Mainwaring, David Canal, Eduardo S. A. Santos, Sylvie Massemin, Tore Slagsvold, Emma Vatka, Alexia Mouchet, Elena Angulo, Juan Moreno, Alexis S. Chaine, Jan Komdeur, Raivo Mänd, Claire J. Branston, Adèle Mennerat, Stefan J. G. Vriend, Wojciech Kania, Davor Ćiković, Anne Charmantier, Maxime Cauchoix, E.V. Ivankina, Juan Carlos Senar, Shinichi Nakagawa, Agu Leivits, Andrey Tolstoguzov, Blandine Doligez, Ben C. Sheldon, Mariusz Cichoń, Gergely Hegyi, Teru Yuta, Benedikt Holtmann, Ella F. Cole, Céline Teplitsky, Marcel E. Visser, Johan Nilsson, Alejandro Cantarero, Jordi Figuerola, Sanja Barišić, Marta Szulkin, Simon Verhulst, Silvia Espín, Arne Iserbyt, Emilio Barba, Bart Kempenaers, Damien R. Farine, Pablo Sánchez-Virosta, Tapio Eeva, Anvar Kerimov, Niels Jeroen Dingemanse, Anna Dubiec, Christiaan Both, Daniela Campobello, Mihai Valcu, Bernt-Erik Sæther, Marcel Eens, Michaela Hau, Ian R. Hartley, Lucy M. Aplin, Frank Adriaensen, János Török, Balázs Rosivall, Carlos Camacho, Camilla A. Hinde, András Liker, Dutch Research Council, Research Council of Norway, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Culina A., Adriaensen F., Bailey L.D., Burgess M.D., Charmantier A., Cole E.F., Eeva T., Matthysen E., Nater C.R., Sheldon B.C., Saether B.-E., Vriend S.J.G., Zajkova Z., Adamik P., Aplin L.M., Angulo E., Artemyev A., Barba E., Barisic S., Belda E., Bilgin C.C., Bleu J., Both C., Bouwhuis S., Branston C.J., Broggi J., Burke T., Bushuev A., Camacho C., Campobello D., Canal D., Cantarero A., Caro S.P., Cauchoix M., Chaine A., Cichon M., Cikovic D., Cusimano C.A., Deimel C., Dhondt A.A., Dingemanse N.J., Doligez B., Dominoni D.M., Doutrelant C., Drobniak S.M., Dubiec A., Eens M., Einar Erikstad K., Espin S., Farine D.R., Figuerola J., Kavak Gulbeyaz P., Gregoire A., Hartley I.R., Hau M., Hegyi G., Hille S., Hinde C.A., Holtmann B., Ilyina T., Isaksson C., Iserbyt A., Ivankina E., Kania W., Kempenaers B., Kerimov A., Komdeur J., Korsten P., Kral M., Krist M., Lambrechts M., Lara C.E., Leivits A., Liker A., Lodjak J., Magi M., Mainwaring M.C., Mand R., Massa B., Massemin S., Martinez-Padilla J., Mazgajski T.D., Mennerat A., Moreno J., Mouchet A., Nakagawa S., Nilsson J.-A., Nilsson J.F., Claudia Norte A., van Oers K., Orell M., Potti J., Quinn J.L., Reale D., Kristin Reiertsen T., Rosivall B., Russell A.F., Rytkonen S., Sanchez-Virosta P., Santos E.S.A., Schroeder J., Senar J.C., Seress G., Slagsvold T., Szulkin M., Teplitsky C., Tilgar V., Tolstoguzov A., Torok J., Valcu M., Vatka E., Verhulst S., Watson H., Yuta T., Zamora-Marin J.M., Visser M.E., WildCRU, University of Oxford [Oxford], University of Antwerp (UA), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), University of Turku, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Station d'écologie théorique et expérimentale (SETE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), OpenMETU, Both group, Komdeur lab, Verhulst lab, and Animal Ecology (AnE)
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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 eco-logical 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 evolution-ary 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 collab-oration and synthesis. We provide community-derived data and meta-data stand-ards and improve data integrity guided by the principles of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR), and aligned with the existing metadata lan-guages (e.g. ecological meta-data language)., The encouraging community involvement stems from SPI-Bird's decentralized ap-proach: 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 demogra-phy, etc.) will aid much-needed large-scale ecological data integration., The 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).
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