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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 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
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 a global network of herpetological collections data from natural history museums, currently including 50 institutions and 5.5 million speciments. Data Location: HerpNET Sites Georefferenced: Yes Comments: Data are searchable by data provider, scientific name and locality [ HERE ]. HerpNET is part of the VertNet cooperative...MORE
This web site hosts an on-line repository for remote sensing and aerial photograpy initiated by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Geological Survey. Data Location: http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data Data Available: Aerial Photography, Satellite Imagery, Elevation maps, Land Cover, Digitized Maps Comments: EROS hosts all data retrieved from remote sensing...MORE
This dataset has compiled life history parameters, with a focus on senesence, for a wide variety of taxa, mostly animals, but also including a few plants and fungi. Dataset Location: http://genomics.senescence.info/species/ Data collection summary/Methods: This dataset is a compilation of life history traits from the literature, and other databases, with...MORE
The USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP) is delineating species range and predicted distribution maps for more than 2,000 species that occur within the continental US as well as Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (we will make these maps and datasets available as they are completed). Our...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