2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
5/25/2021 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | New Life to Old Data: Building a Global Database of Freshwater Predator-Prey Interactions | Virtual Platform
New Life to Old Data: Building a Global Database of Freshwater Predator-Prey Interactions
Most of STEM is dominated by “long tail” science. Simply put, this is science conducted by independent groups over limited spatial and temporal scales under funding systems that undermine data organization and sharing. The scientific literature, because of this, lacks organization and consists of individual papers using variable formats. This is particularly limiting to the field of trophic ecology, which requires vast amounts of geographically and biologically diverse data to understand food webs within and between ecosystems that are highly complex, susceptible to change, and indicative of ecological health. Whereas most solutions to this data crisis involve standardizing and storing modern and future ecological data, our approach attempts to recapture the massive amount of past data. Our project is digitizing approximately 140 years of data from the fish predation literature to address this modern data crisis and to provide an open-source reference for pertinent ecological questions relating to trophic interactions within freshwater ecosystems.
- Food webs
- Stream
- Biodiversity
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Jacob Ridgway
(), University of South Dakota , jacob.ridgway@coyotes.usd.edu;
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Jeff Wesner
(), University of South Dakota, Jeff.Wesner@usd.edu;
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