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Portal Project - Mammals

The Portal Project is a long-term ecological study that has been monitoring small mammal community responses to climate and experimental manipulation of dominant rodent species since 1977 in southeastern Arizona. Ecological Level: Community Biome: Desert Location: Southeastern Arizona (Lat/Long) Spatial Scale of data: Each plot is .25 ha. There are...MORE

Forest Inventory and Analysis Database

The FIADB contains community information for sites throughout forested lands of the US and its territories. There are three stages of sampling, which affects the type of data available for any given site: Phase 1 consists of remote sensing for stratification and identification of forested land. Phase 2 [Forest Inventory...MORE

Alwyn H. Gentry Forest Transect Dataset

Over 22 years, Alwyn H. Gentry collected data from 226 sites on six continents. Gentry and his collaborators collected all plants with stem diameters equal to or exceeding 2.5 cm diameter at breast height (dbh) along ten 2 x 50 m transects, totaling 0.1 hectare at each site. Ecological Level:...MORE

Southern Ocean Dietary Database

This is a complilation of data sets that focus on dietary assessent and stable isotopes of marine life in the oceans surrounding Antarctica. Dataset Location : Ecological Archives Site Location : Approximately south of 40 o S Methods : Data gathered on diet and other trophic information were compliled from...MORE

Vascular Plants of an Oklahoma Tallgrass Prairie

This dataset describes 12 years of vascular plant composition at the Tallgrass Prairie Reserve in Oklahoma measured at multiple spatial scales at a local level. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Osage County, Oklahoma (36.73 o - 36.90 o N, 96.32 o - 96.49 o W) Sites...MORE

Biodiversity Effects on Species Richness

This dataset summarized the effect of experimentally reducing species richess has on abundance or biomass of the focal group, abundance or biomass of the focal group's primary resource, and/or the depletion of resources by that trophic group. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Methods: Experimental studies were chosen for their focus and...MORE

Portal Long Term Desert Plant, Ant, and Rodent Manipulation

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

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Predator and prey body sizes in marine food webs

This dataset is a compilation of predator prey sizes from 27 locations ranging from the tropics to the poles. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Global distribution of marine habitats Sites Georefferenced: Yes Data Collected: species, life history stages, size (length and mass), feeding interaction, geographic location, environmental data Issues:...MORE

Body Size of Consumers

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

Mammal abundance of the Great Basin

This dataset follows coyotes, lagomorphs, and rodents from 1962-1993 in Idaho and Utah. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho; Curlew Valley, Utah Sites Georefferenced: No Timespan: 1962-1993 Sampling Frequency: biannually (spring & fall) Methods: Rodents were trapped with a 1 M-4 snap trap...MORE