I would like to make a map to show the distribution of native bee species in New Zealand. On a larger whole country scale the map would likely only include coloured/textured polygons of each species distribution. On a smaller scale it may be relevant to also include data on land use (e.g. urban/pasture/reserve) and smaller polygons or points.
In the future, I would like to use maps to show the geographic distributions of specimens in collections as well as their range of distribution and the cover of the sampling in differents areas.
I want to shows the movement of white storks and the sites they stop at.
I will have GPS points for multiple birds (around 20) so I would like to colour code the different birds. There are some key sites that we know they visit, so I would like to add these as polygons so it’s immediately clear looking at the map which birds are stopping at which sites
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To delineate the home range and core areas of Bornean leopard cats within plantation areas and surrounding forested areas (HCV, riparian forest etc). Besides, indicating areas of high activity level according to time.
One aspect that is always worth looking at with this type of analysis is the “time” spent in the locations. If you just map the locations “as is”, then you can see where the birds go, but not necessarily how long they spend in any one location. With the GPS data, it should be “time stamped” so you can calculate the amount of time a particular bird has spent in one location (or in an area of close proximity).
Producing an “activity density” map based on grid squares or hexagons would be a way to map “distribution of time” to show where the storks have not only been, but where they have spent most time.
I love to create a map showing the vegetative cover in Northern, Nigeria so that I can identity places that have been encroached by sand dune.
Interesting. Best of luck
my map interest will be showing the distribution of mangrove crabs at Bayhead Mangrove Site in Durban. I have not collected any data yet but I think the points will be a better representation.
Hi Jonathan, thank you, that’s a really good idea which I hadn’t though of. I think this could be really helpful so I’ll definitely look into this!
would like to let people see the travel route of the parrot species at the area.
Ive done a similar analysis on “bird flight density” when looking at ornithological collision risk associated with wind farms. The SNH (Scottish Natural Heritage) standard methodolgy is to look at flight time of birds across the whole of the windfarm, but for very large windfarms, there can be huge variation in flight times across the area (eg. a raptor hovering or cirlcing in the vicinity of wind turbines is much more at risk than one darting through quickly). So amalgamating flight time by 100m x 100m square (or by 100m hexagons - the difference between why you should use one rather than the other is another topic discussion!) would be able to map the variations in bird flight activity across the site. The same principle can apply to your work. Remember, the GIS isnt just about producing a map, its about analysing and presenting the data you have sitting behind the map - happy to have a more detailed discussion if you want to message me direct.
I would like to produduce a map that show the distribution and the home range of gorilla population in the forest and how gorillas use their habitat to aquire what they need.
I would like to create a map showing desert encroachment in the Northern part of Nigeria.
Wow! Will you be using a R package to build it or you plan to work exclusively on QGIS
Hi,
Thanks for your questions and sorry for my late reply
Yes I am going to use individual point data to represent the distribution of my species: However, for the habitat types, I will use a polygon of course. I still don’t have the skills to differentiate habitat types when using land sat for examples, but I can use available shapefile data plus data collected from the field to limit the boundary of each of them.
Cheers
I would like to create a map showing macroinvertebrate distribution in forest fragments using points and polygons.
Hi, @JorgeReyesD!
Interesting! It would be nice to show this information to the public so that they can learn ever more about Mexican wolf´s habits. I expect you can do it.
My map will show bird window strike areas in a city in New Zealand for a species called the kererū in particular
I would like to create a map that shows the livestock sites with the greatest conflict between Mexican wolf and livestock so i can to show possible places and sites for interventions designed to reduce pressure on these wolf habitat sites.
I want to do a map showing an irrigation scheme with a river and vegetation