Developmental version of MoveTraits database
The MoveTrait database uses movement data and a standardized workflow to extract a suite of simple, standardized and comparable movement metrics across species. The database is introduced in the manuscript "MoveTraits - Integrating animal behaviour into trait-based ecology" (preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.15.643440v1).
In its first Version (V0.1) the database used open access movebank studies (license types CC_0, CC_BY, CC_BY_NC) and an open-access dataframe published alongside Tucker et al. 2023 (https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abo6499) and publicly available for download under: https://zenodo.org/records/7704108, file Tucker_Road_Spatial.rds as input. We intend to integrate traits from closed-access datasets in the future.
The traits currently extracted are displacement distances at different time scales, maximum displacement distances over set periods, range sizes, intensity of use, and diurnality. Please refer to Table S1 for a full overview. All traits are summarized at the species and individual level as mean, median, CV, 05th and 95th percentile. We intend to implement a wider range of trait extractions in the future.
For all details see release MoveTrait.v0.1
Traits database at three hierarchichal levels: species summaries, individual summaries, underlying within-individual traits as nested dataframe. These outputs can be found in the attached files to the release MoveTrait.v0.1
We welcome contributions of new traits. The repository in protected, either you push your additions as a branch or create a fork and make a pull request as described bellow:
- create a Fork from this repository (button "Fork" at the top right)
- make changes in your Fork (that will be on your github account). You can clone your github repository on RStudio (read how to do it e.g. here).
- make a Pull Request to the original repository (button "Contribute" top left).
- use the button "Sync fork" to keep up to date with the original repository.