Item 8. Developing EPOC's PWB related to adaptation
5.- Doing a map in MRMapping (Version ModestR v5.3 or higher)
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Step by step tutorial:
Doing a multiple distributions map and
calculating spatial overlapping in MRMapping
2. What do you need for this tutorial:
1. ModestR v2.1 or higher (previous versions still not include
MRMapping)
2. A ModestR database already created and
populated with species distribution data (see our
tutorial “How to create a ModestR database” for details about how to create
a ModestR database, or use the ModestR “Elasmobranchii” sample database
available in ModestR website)
3. Internet connection
4. About 30 minutes
ModestR software can be freely downloaded from http://www.ipez.es/ModestR
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3. We’ll describe how to create maps that can
include data from several species, grouped
by any rank (class, order, family…), using
MRMapping, and how to calculate spatial
overlappings.
Follow the next steps!
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If you still don’t have a ModestR database, you can download a sample database.
5. First of all, start MRMapping, and select a ModestR database that already contains species distribution data, going to
menu File/Select database, and then selecting the wanted database.
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1. Download a sample
database:
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>> Download >>
Databases >> ModestR
Elasmobranchii
database.
2. Decompress the zip file.
3. Select the
decompressed file from
MRMapping:
Menu>>File>>Select
Database.
4. This database only has
the taxonomy, please
import the GBIF data
samples as you did in
Tutorial No.2.
6. Now you can easily add to the map a species dataset from the selected database. Just go to the menu File/Add/Maps
from ModestR database.
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Go to File/Add/Maps from ModestR database
7. A tree view of the database will be shown, where you can easily navigate though the different levels (classes, orders,
families, genuses and species).
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By default, each selected species will
be added as a distinct individual
series data to the map.
Expand any branch(es) and
selected two different species,
whether or not from the same
branch.
Click on “Select” button
You can, for example, go to the species level of
the same or of different branches, and select two
different species by using the corresponding
checkboxes.
This counter displays how many species are
currently selected. This is useful to know how
many species are involved when you selected a
whole rank (e.g. a family, an order…).
8. Both selected species will be shown on the map. For this example we are using species with occurrence data. So each
occurrence is shown in the map as a colored point, but you can also see the occurrence area like colored areas.
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Note: occurrences are usually named ‘samples’ in ModestR
9. To change map settings, go to Edit/Distribution list editor menu.
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Go to Edit/Distribution list
editor menu.
Here are displayed the colors
assigned to samples, land and sea
presence areas (those two last
colors are used in range maps).
10. To change colors of a series data just double-click on the name of the wanted series (in this example, each series
corresponds to a species).
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To modify the
color of the valid
samples, for
example, click on
the
corresponding
colored square.
A color-selection
box will be
displayed. Select
the new color
and accept. The
corresponding
samples will be
immediately
updated in the
map.
A dialog box will be
displayed where you
can change any color
just by clicking on it.
Double-click on the name of the
wanted series
If you are using range maps (such as “Elasmobranchii” sample database), you should modify presence areas colors (e.g. sea color) in turn of sample colors.
11. Once you have changed the colors to your liking, you can export the map as an image.
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Go to File/Export/Current map view as image menu option.
12. Let’s go to Legend tab, and:
1. Check the “Add legend to map” option.
2. Then click on the Preview button. A preview of the
image to be exported will be shown on the default
image viewer of your system.
3. Close this preview, and click on the Accept button
to export the image to a file.
When you export an image, the
current map view is exported. So you
can zoom to a specific area, for
example, then export this view.
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A dialog box will be displayed where you can set the dimensions and format of the image to be exported, add a grid or
a legend..
13. The exported image will probably look like this one (if you’re using “Elasmobranchii”).
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14. Now let’s see how to do more complex maps, grouping presence data by ranks (orders, families, genuses…).
First of all, we’ll start a new map, going to File/New menu option.
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Go to File/New menu
option to create a new
map.
15. Then go to File/Add/Maps from ModestR database menu option, to select several species distribution maps to add.
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Go to File/ File/Add/Maps
from ModestR database
menu option.
16. Then go to File/Add/Maps from ModestR database menu option, to select several species distribution maps to add.
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Expand any
branch(es) and
selected for
example a whole
class, or one or
two orders.
Change the Add mode to “Group by”, and select to group selected species by families, for example.
Click on “Select” button.
If the selection you have
done includes many
species, a message may be
displayed warning that the
operation may take some
time.
MRMapping will collect the
data of every selected
species and group them by
the category you have
selected.
17. Resulting map will show a different color for the data of each category you have selected (orders, families, genuses…)
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18. Resulting map will show a different color for the data of each category you have selected (orders, families, genus).
Go to Edit/Map list editor menu as you did before.
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A dialog box with the list of
different datasets currently
shown in the map will be
displayed.
In this example, data has been
grouped by families. So here we
can see that each family is a
dataset, and, as previously
explained, we can double click
on any dataset name to modify
colors and other settings.
19. You can also easily delete one or more datasets from the map.
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Then click on the
Del button to
delete the checked
datasets.
Map will be
immediately
updated.
Use the checkboxes
on the left of the
datasets to select
them.
20. You can modify the order in which datasets are displayed on the map, thus modifying how they overlap. Order column
indicates the order in which the datasets are displayed. The order nº1 indicates the topmost dataset, that is, the
dataset that is painted above all the others. The order nº 2 is the next one, etc. So you may want to change this order
to do that a dataset shall be more visible than another one.
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Once all settings done, click on
“Close” button to close this dialog
box.
To do that, just select the wanted
dataset, and change its relative
order using the buttons Top, Up,
Down and Bottom.The map will be
immediately updated.
Verify that the
Show option is
unchecked.
21. You can decide to add more data in any moment, just by going again to File/Add/Maps from ModestR database menu
option, and selecting new data. There is no restriction in the way you may add data: you can now add a single species,
or a whole family, etc. Finally you can export resulting going to File/Export/Current map view as image menu option,
as explained before.
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22. There are more things you can do un MRMapping, such as adding environmental data or visual templates. More
information about environmental variables in Tutorial No. 3
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This is an example of a map generated with MRMapping with surface temperature as marine environmental layer.
23. If you use range maps (e.g. those from “Elasmobranchii” sample database available in ModestR website), you can also
calculate spatial overlapping between the distributions you have added to the map.
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You will have three options:
1. Geographic overlapping.
2. Environmental overlapping.
3. Areas summary report.
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Geographic overlapping option: exporting and map processing steps.
✓ Short report only calculates global spatial overlapping between each pair of
distributions.
✓ Full report also provides information about occupied surface of each
distribution and overlapping by habitat type.
Select the option you’re interested in and wait until the map processing step
finishes.
25. Geographic overlapping option: saving and analyzing steps.
✓ Save the .csv file in the folder and click Ok.
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26. Environmental overlapping option: exporting and saving steps. To estimate the environmental overlapping, you need
to create the environmental layer before (Tutorial No. 3).
✓ Short report only calculates global spatial overlapping between
each pair of distributions.
✓ Full report also provides information about occupied surface of
each distribution and overlapping by habitat type.
Select the option you’re interested in and save the .file in the folder
and click Accept.
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27. Areas summary reports: This option generates a report in CSV format with the areas in km2 of each type of habitat
where the species is present..
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✓ Then, you can open
the file with any
spreadsheet.
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Areas summary reports: Total Area Of Occupancy of the species: Total.AOO. Total area for each habitat type occupied
by the species: Sea.Area, Land.Area, Large.Rivers.Area, Small.Rivers.Area, Lentic.waters.Area, etc. Minimum and
maximum coordinates where the species is present. Min.Longitude, Max.Longitude, Min.Latitude, Max.Latitude.
29. It was the
Step by step tutorial:
Doing a map in MRMapping
Thank you for your interest.
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