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El Verde Grid Invertebrate Data is a long-term observational study of the snail community at the Luquillo LTER on Puerto Rico. Ecological Level: Community Biome: Tropical Habitat : Forest. 4 different "cover classes" on the plot, categorized by historical human use intensity (more details in Thompson et al. 2002). Location:...MORE
This dataset depicts food webs from three North American Pacific Coast Estuaries and includes details regarding parastic characters, body-size, biomass, and ontogeny. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Carpinteria Salt Marsh, CA ; Estero de Punta Banda, Baja California ; Bahia Falsa in Bahia San Quintin, Baja California (Lat/Lon) Sampling...MORE
This dataset describes long-term (1977-2002) experimental manipulations of ant, plant and rodent species in a desert ecosystem, among other alterations to the system. Data Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Chihuahuan Desert, near Portal, Arizona (31 o 56' 20.29" N, 109 o 4' 47.44" W) Sites Georeferenced: Yes (not part of...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 hosts information about species and ecosystems of the Western Hemisphere, including several types of biodiversity data. Data Location: http://www.natureserve.org/getData/index.jsp Data Available: species, location, conservation status, commonness/rareness, spatial data Comments: This web site compiles data from a number of different programs, including: NatureServe Explorer; InfoNatura; Web Services for...MORE
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
This web site hosts information regarding the color signature (color and reflectance) of flowers. Data Location: http://reflectance.co.uk/ Data Available: species, location, reflectance (wavelengths 300-700nm) Comments: A search is available by term [ HERE ] or by color in hexagon units [ HERE ]. Citation: Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V,...MORE
This data describes plant traits from throughout the globe and includes 1,000 traits for more than 64,000 plant species. Database Location: http://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/Home.php Sites Georeferenced: Yes (for many of the entries) Methods: Data is collected from previous studies and as a continued effort from the organizers. Data Collected: species, location, traits...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 data set describes nematode communities within the tropical rainforest of Costa Rica. Dataset Location: Dryad Site Location: La Selva Biological Research Station, Costa Rica (10 o 26' N, 83 o 59' W) Sites Georefferenced: No Methods: Species were identified using molecular operational taxonomic units measured by an 18S ribosomal...MORE