Thanks to our near real-time data processing system and data processing software @skmorgane has been monitoring what she thinks is the start of an active regime shift at one of her long-term research sites. This means that the ecosystem is likely rapidly transitioning from the state it has been in for nearly a decade to a new state and we're able to watch that transition happen.
https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2024/05/13/regime-shift-still-cometh/
You'll notice that the last data point in these graphs is from May. It is currently May. If you're an ecologist you understand that that is really fast. The reason we can do this so quickly is that we release our data in near real-time using an automated system for QA/QC, integrated data from sensors, and arching everything to Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000125
And we also have software that makes it quick and easy to access and manipulate the data from the site.
This Community Page article describes a data management workflow that can be readily implemented by small research teams and which solves the core challenges of managing regularly updating data. It includes a template repository and tutorial to assist others in setting up their own regularly updating data management systems.
Ethan White