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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 data from pollen grains which are accumulated in lakebed sediments and provide records of past vegetation. Data Location: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/gpd.html Datasets Available: Data is organized by collection location: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, North Atlantic Ocean, South America Comments: An additional search engine is provided [...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 data set describes taxonomic diversity and size distibution of benthic foraminifers from a carbonate platform in south China. Dataset Location: Dryad Site Location: Guizhou Province, China Sites Georefferenced: No Data Collected: genus, species, size, substage, age, environment Citation: Payne JL, Summers M, Rego BL, Altiner D, Wei J, Yu...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