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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
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 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
This dataset compiles the herbaceous plant response to 35 N fertilization experiments. Dataset Location: Ecologial Archives Site Location: Brooks Range, Alaska; Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California; Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Minnesota; Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER ; Jasper Ridge Biological Reserve, California; Kellogg Biological Staton LTER, Michigan ; Konza Prairie Biological...MORE
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
This web site hosts data collected at the North Temperate Lakes LTER in Wisconsin since at least 1981 organized by the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin. Data Location: http://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/datacatalog/search Site Location: Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, and other lakes in the Yahara Lake District, southern Wisconsin; Trout Lake,...MORE
This data set describes vascular plant and bryophyte species as well as biogeochemical data for acid grasslands of the Atlantic region of Europe. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Atlantic biogeographic region, Europe Sites Georefferenced: Yes Timespan: 2002-2007 Methods: Sites were randomly determined to ensure a range of nitrogen deposition...MORE
Data from the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research site. Data: http://www1.vcrlter.virginia.edu/home1/?q=dataCatalog or http://metacat.lternet.edu/das/lter/browse.jsp#VCR Research Topics: Holocene barrier island geology; salt marsh ecology, geology, and hydrology; ecology/evolution of insular vertebrates; primary/secondary succession; life-form modeling of succession. The Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR) is an extremely dynamic, heterogeneous coastal barrier landscape comprising...MORE
The USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP) PAD-US is the national inventory of U.S. terrestrial and marine protected areas that are dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreation and cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. Lands in PAD-US are mainly...MORE
The USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP) Land Cover Data Set includes detailed vegetation and land use patterns for the continental United States. The data set incorporates the Ecological System classification system developed by NatureServe to represent natural and semi-natural land cover. The 590 land use classes in the data set...MORE