Capturing change: the duality of time-lapse imagery to acquire data and depict ecological dynamics

Buckley, Emma M. Brinley; Allen, Craig R.; Forsberg, Michael; Farrell, Michael; Caven, Andrew J.

doi:10.5751/es-09268-220330

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“…Also, several complementary representations based on historical and cultural aspects of the same problem may foster learning. The visual arts that cover different time periods may provide such additional learning support (Thomsen 2015, Brinley Buckley et al 2017. Specifically, in the case of Las Tablas de Daimiel, fine art by Juan D'Opazo and Ignacio Meco, together with historical photographs available in private and public collections (the image collection of the Water and Wetland Center of La Mancha), could complement our lament; so may the aerial images that capture snapshots of dry and wet conditions in the wetland (Fig.…”

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Sonifying social-ecological change: A wetland laments agricultural transformation

Angeler¹,

Álvarez‐Cobelas²,

Sánchez-Carrillo³

2018

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ABSTRACT. Art-science approaches are mounting to increase public literacy about sustainability challenges as planet Earth swiftly moves to an uncertain future. We use data sonification, an approach that allows converting scientific data into music, to document the large-scale transformation of the agricultural sector in central Spain during the 1970s. We converted 71-year time series of inundation area and rainfall data from the freshwater marsh Las Tablas de Daimiel into a soprano and bass voice, respectively. We composed "The Lament of Las Tablas de Daimiel," which sings the biophysical disruption of the wetland due to the agricultural transformation. More generally, the song testifies to the demise of the natural aquatic environment due to unsustainable use of limited water resources in dryland countries and elsewhere. Making the mute voices of ecosystem heard may have potential to increase awareness about the unsustainable use of short water supplies and other social-ecological challenges. In the age of big data in science, data sonification may be a useful tool to represent and communicate such challenges.

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Sonifying social-ecological change: A wetland laments agricultural transformation

Angeler¹,

Álvarez‐Cobelas²,

Sánchez-Carrillo³

2018

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“…Vegetation phenology was obtained from the time-lapse images at each site by calculating the green chromatic coordinates (GCC = G /[ R + G + B ]) within a region of interest [3] . Water inundation, the hydropattern of the wet meadow, was obtained using a batch macro in ImageJ/FIJI, Java-based open-access program [ 4 , 5 ]. The results are the percent of the image classified as open water, scaled from 0 to 1.…”

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Boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata) spring calling activity, habitat metrics, and associated environmental data

Buckley

Gottesman

Caven³

et al. 2020

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Data were collected using multimodal monitoring technologies pairing sound recorders with time-lapse camera systems. In the spring of 2015, 2016, and 2017, sound recordings and imagery were collected at a wet meadow and forested slough in the Central Platte River Valley of Nebraska. Boreal chorus frog ( Pseudacris maculata ) calling activity was obtained from analysing sound recordings. Habitat metrics including vegetation phenology and wet meadow hydropattern were derived from image analysis. This dataset can be used to assess phenology, anuran vocalization activity, and environmental change, as well as to further understanding of wetland ecology. Data are co-submitted with manuscript Brinley Buckley, E. M., Gottesman, B. L., Caven, A. J., Harner, M. J., and Pijanowski, B. C., Assessing ecological and environmental influences on Boreal Chorus Frog ( Pseudacris maculata ) spring calling phenology using multimodal passive monitoring technologies. Ecological Indicators (In Press).

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“… 4 Examination of entire landscapes using remote time-lapse photography has documented large-scale loss of native species habitat due to the encroachment of invasive species. 5 However, besides these kinds of panoramic views of plant habitat change, to date, there is little time-lapse documentation of the behavior of an invasive plant species in order to reveal their strategies for conquest.…”

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Nodding behavior observed in Japanese stiltgrass,Microstegium vimineum, seedlings from time-lapse observations

Zhao

Brenner

2021

Plant Signaling & Behavior

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Invasive species are the second main cause of biodiversity loss because of their exceptional ability to supplant native species by creating major upheavals in ecosystems. Inexpensive and prevalent time-lapse photography provides an exciting opportunity to better understand the aggressive behavior of invasive species including how they invade and conquer new territory. One of the most pervasive invasive species in the Eastern United States is Japanese stiltgrass, Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Campus, which originated from Southeast Asia. Previous research has examined the conditions that enable Japanese stiltgrass to become invasive, but nothing is known regarding root and shoot behavior. Here time-lapse was used to examine Japanese stiltgrass seedlings, early in their development, as a first step to observe its behavior. Our results demonstrate that Japanese stiltgrass shoots appear to drop or collapse and then resurrect back to an upright stature – sometimes the same plant exhibits this behavior multiple times. We have shown, in addition, that emergent stilt root growth rate increases with increased root length. This and similar kinds of analyses may provide insight into how Japanese stiltgrass thrives aggressively in a non-native environment with the goal of developing better methods of controlling this noxious weed.

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Capturing change: the duality of time-lapse imagery to acquire data and depict ecological dynamics

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

Sonifying social-ecological change: A wetland laments agricultural transformation

Sonifying social-ecological change: A wetland laments agricultural transformation

Boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata) spring calling activity, habitat metrics, and associated environmental data

Nodding behavior observed in Japanese stiltgrass,Microstegium vimineum, seedlings from time-lapse observations

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