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This dataset contains over 16,000 records or a consumer body size and its resources. Dataset Location: Ecological Data Site Location: United Kingdom, United States, Antarctica Sites Georefferenced: Yes (not all entries) Data Collected: body size, taxonomy, location, habitat, feeding interaction, metabolism Best practices: Error code -999. Additional considerations: These data...MORE
This dataset compiles general life history characteristics for various taxa and body size groups of placental non-volant mammals. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Methods: Data was collected from the literature. Values for life history characteristics are averages of numerous individuals/studies to acount for variability of traits due to climate or evironmental...MORE
This dataset compiles body mass of all known mammals across geographic and taxonomic space and evolutionary time. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Methods: Data was collected from more than 150 pre-established sources. Data Collected: species, averaged body mass Orders: Artiodactyla (280 records), Bibymalagasia (2 records), Carnivora (393 records), Cetacea (75 records),...MORE
This dataset contains maps of land cover patterns across the conterminous United States. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Lower 48, United Stated Sites Georeffereneced: Yes Timespan: 1991-1993 Methods: Images were collected from Landsat Thematic Mapper at a 30 m resolution and classified to land cover type and spatial filters...MORE
This dataset catalogs field estimates of net primary productivity for natural and agricultural ecosystems worldwide from approximately 1870-1980. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Sites Georefferenced: Yes Timespan: 1869-1982 Methods: Field measurements off above-ground NPP were collected from the literature and complied in a standardized fashion. Methodology of field techniques are not...MORE
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
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
This web site houses species accounts and georaphical data of mammals for north america including phylogenetic information and skull, bone, and teeth images. Dataset Location: http://www.mnh.si.edu/mna/main.cfm?lang=_en Site Location: North America Sites Georefferenced: Yes Comments: Multiple user interfaces are included within this dataset. An interactive map of the continent allow users...MORE
VertNet consists of four global diversity databases housed on independent web sites: Mammal Natworked Information System, Ornithological Information System, HerpNET, and FishNet 2. Data Location: VertNet Comments: This large-scale data repository organizes extensive publically available data and diversity information from primary data contributors acting to construct their datasets in a...MORE
This web site hosts data compiled from 17 North American Institutions about taxonimic and geographic records of mammals. Data Location: MaNIS Sites Georefferenced: Yes Comments: Data are searchable by specimen record, taxonomic index, and geographic index [ HERE ]. MaNIS is part of the VertNet cooperative data network. Example Citation:...MORE