Modestr : una herramienta informática para el estudio de los ecosistemas acuáticos de Colombia

ABSTRACT: The aim of this manuscript is to show the usefulness of the software package ModestR in studies of distribution of Colombian marine and freshwater species. This software is free available at the Website: <http://www.ipez.es/ ModestR>. To show and test the potential of ModestR, here an exemplar assessment is presented of a database using all valid species of freshwater shes of the orders Characiformes and Siluriformes, and their geographical records available in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, 2012), and of the order Carcharhiniformes as representatives of marine species. ModestR includes, in its initial phase, two applications: DataManager and MapMaker. The application DataManager is designed for an integrated taxonomic information and maps of the distribution of any species group. The application MapMaker has been designed to generate species distribution maps in four different ways: 1) by importing a CSV le with the name of the species and their geographical coordinates, 2) importing the geographical records automatically from GBIF, 3) importing geographical coordinates generated by distribution models, and 4) making expert maps by selecting distribution areas, according to the types of habitats occupied by the species. The possibility of working with habitats is one of the most important contributions of ModestR and, in particular, that are mapped small lotic ecosystems (creeks, streams, etc.), large lotic ecosystems (rivers) and lentic ecosystems (ponds, lakes, reservoirs, swamps, etc.). Moreover, it is also possible to select marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Therefore, although the manuscript has been focused on species of aquatic ecosystems, ModestR also allows the same type of studies with terrestrial species.

• Autores: Guisande González, Cástor; Jiménez Segura, Luz Fernanda; Pelayo Villamil, Patricia; González Vilas, Luis; Carvajal Quintero, Juan David; García Roselló, Emilio; González Dacosta, Jacinto; Manjarrés Hernández, Ana M.; Heine, Juergen; Granado Lorencio, Carlos; Vaamonde, Antonio
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2012
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/10149
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10495/10149
• Palabra clave: Biología acuática; Colombia - Aspectos ambientales; Distribución de las especies; Ecología acuática; Fondo Mundial de Información sobre Biodiversidad - GBIF; Macroecología; Riqueza de especies; Aquatic ecology; Aquatic habitats; Macroecology; ModestR
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Colombia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CO)