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Paleobiology Database

This web site hosts information about the entire fossil record, including information about fossil collections, individual plants and animals, taxonomic groups, references to publications, stratigraphic units, time scales, and time intervals. Data Location: paleobiodb.org Data Available: collection, occurrence, specimen records, taxonomic names/opinion, measurements of specimens Comments: Tools are available on...MORE

Boreal Forest

Desert

Mediterranean / Chaparral

Amphibians / Reptiles

Global Population Dynamics Database

This web site hosts the largest collection of animal and plant population data throughout the world, within nearly 5,000 time series. Data Location: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/cpb/research/patternsandprocesses/gpdd Data Available: mammals, birds, zooplankton counts, etc. Comments: A log-in is requested for the organizers to track the use of the data. A search page and...MORE

Population

Time series

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

This data set was collected by the Center for Tropical Forest Science at the Smithsonian research facilities in the Panama Canal Watershed, including forest census, carbon storage, wood density, soil, plant functional traits, and arthpod monitoring. Dataset Location: http://www.ctfs.si.edu/group/Resources/Data Site Location: Barro Colorado Island, Panama(9.154 O N, 79.846 O W);...MORE

Animal Movement (Movebank)

This web site stores global data to track the movement of animals. Data Location: http://www.movebank.org/ Sites Georefferenced: Yes Data Available: species, location Citation: Wikelski, M., and Kays, R. 2010. Movebank: archive, analysis and sharing of animal movement data. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.movebank.org , Accessed on <date>.MORE

Amphibians / Reptiles

Leaf Toughness Traits in a Neotropical Forest

This data set describes leaf toughness traits for 197 tree and shrub species from a Panamanian neotropical forest. Dataset Location: Dryad Site Location: Baro Colorado Island, Panama (9.154 o N, 79.846 o W) Sites Georefferenced: No Methods: For details regarding sampling methodology contact Joe Wright ( wrightj@si.edu ) or Jared...MORE

Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS)

This web site hosts an on-line repository for remote sensing and aerial photograpy initiated by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Geological Survey. Data Location: http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data Data Available: Aerial Photography, Satellite Imagery, Elevation maps, Land Cover, Digitized Maps Comments: EROS hosts all data retrieved from remote sensing...MORE

Observational

Global

Luquillo LTER

This web site hosts data from the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research Network from both tropical forest and metropolis ecosystems of Puerto Rico. Dataset Location: http://luq.lternet.edu/data/ Site Location: Luquillo Mountains (San Juan) of Puerto Rico Datasets Available: THEMES - meteorology; hydrology; disturbance; nutrient and carbon dynamics; vegetation dynamics; animal population...MORE

Tropical Forest

Freshwater

Amphibians / Reptiles

Neotropical stingless bee (meliponine) plant visitation

Includes published and unpublished records of Neotropical stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponini) plant usage determined through both transect studies and pollen analyses. I have matched data to current bee species names following the Moure catalog ( http://moure.cria.org.br/index ), and plant classification following GBIF ( http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm ). Dataset Location: Please contact...MORE