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Virtual Biogeography

General logistical questions

  • How are we going to collect data from the movie?

    • Repeat viewings/overlapping watch segments
  • Are there databases we can collect data from for this project?

    • iNat, GBIF might have occurrence records for some of the species to compare distribution/density
    • Fishbase? Dr. Poisot says there is lots of data there but no API

Project research questions we want to explore

  • Where does Finding Nemo take place?

    • Are the species featured accurate for the region?
  • Are the species assemblages accurate in a biogeographical sense?

    • e.g. would we ever see a clownfish hanging around a blue tang in the wild?
  • Which species are we surveying for the purposes of this project?

    • Only fish? What about marine plants? Invertebrates? Only the characters with speaking roles?
    • Maybe we can limit to animals only? I'm not sure, but I think some of the plant species in the film were imaginary or generic
  • What species interactions are observed? Were any missing?

    • Consumptive interactions (predation)
    • Mutualistic interactions (anenome + clown fish, sharks with the fish?)
    • any competition?
    • are they as common (?) in the movie as in real coral reef systems?
    • traits/behaviours that facilitate these interactions (stinging jelly fish, camoflague?)
  • How accurate are the species portrayals?

    • Can image classification AI identify the species correctly (meaning the representations are fairly accurate) iNaturalist has this feature
    • are some traits missing/wrong/exaggerated (I'm thinking especially for sharks maybe, were their teeth drawn super huge to make them "scary")