COM(P)ADRE Team
Our team is composed of three sub-teams: a core committee, a science committee and the digitization team:
Principles of the core committee
Vision: Discovery of how demography affects and shapes the evolution, abundance and distribution of organimds across the tree of life.
Mission: Facilitating comparative analysis of plant and animal demography through provision of data infrastructure, tools and open-access data.
Core committee member roles:
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Provide for the sustainability of the databases through direction setting, database development and funding applications.
- Contribute to annual core committee meetings
- Seek & apply for funding for workshops & core meetings
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Facilitate the coordination and distribution of data digitization.
- Provide guidance on coordination of digitization through the institution of a head COMPADRino in the local node and COMPADRinos to digitize, error-check, complement and develop routines for comparative demographic analyses using matrix population models.
- Seek and apply for funding opportunities to set up distributed digitization nodes and develop and contribute digitization training resources (see digitization structure figure).
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Collaborate on training, research and review projects on plant and animal demography as opportunities arise
- Initiate, lead and co-author papers, books, grant applications using the databases
Roles
- Make recommendation on future directions of COMPADRE and COMADRE.
- Help the core committee to obtain funding to secure the continuity of the database.
- Point out missing information and/or species in the database from gray literature.
- Encourage the scientific community to use COMPADRE and COMADRE.
The COMPADRE/COMADRE digitization team (the COMPADRINOs) are organized among several nodes. Each node’s team is responsible for digitizing data for a particular subset of publications, which are then centrally merged to main databases ready for release to the public. In addition to digitizing, the team conducts a series of error checks and supplements the published data with additional information where necessary. Wherever required, and where possible, the COMPADRINOs contact the original publication authors to obtain any missing information.
Current COMPADRINOs
- Pol Capdevila (Oxford)
- Cari Schuette (Lincoln Park Zoo)
Former COMPADRINOs
