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Redvers Waterfowl Census

The Redvers Waterfowl Census is an annual census breeding pairs of waterfowl at the Redvers Waterfowl Study area in Canada. Habitat: Mixed-prairie Location: Sasketchewan, Canada (Lat/Long) Spatial Scale of data: unknown,but Redvers Waterfowl Study Area is listed as 0.2 x 64.4 km (Vickery and Nudds 1984) Timespan: 1952-1977 Frequency: anually...MORE

Forest Stand Structure of the cental Western Ghats

This dataset contains a single sampling of trees and lianas in 22000 km 2 of Karnataka, India. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: central Western Ghats region, Karnataka, India (74 o 15' - 75 o 40' E; 15 o 15' - 13 o 30' N) Sites Georefferenced: Yes Timespan: 1996-1997...MORE

Canopy Geometry and Plant Architecture at a Leaf Scale

This dataset profiles allometric relationships of fruit trees using 3-D mapping, including one apple, two mango, two rubber, and one walnut. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: France (apple, walnut) and Thailand (mango, rubber) Sites Georefferenced: Yes Sampling Frequency: Once Methods: Leaf location and orientation were measured using an electromagnetic...MORE

Canopy Height and Elevation of a Neotropical Rain Forest

Using airborne remote sensing, this dataset characterizes the canopy height of a tropical rain forest landscape. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Tropical Wet Forest,, Atlantic lowlands, Costa Rica; Includes La Selva Biological Station and Braulio Carrillo National Park Sites Georeffereneced: Yes Sampling Period: 13-14 March 2006 Methods: LiDar was...MORE

Paleobiology Database

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

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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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

North American Mammals

This web site houses species accounts and georaphical data of mammals for north america including phylogenetic information and skull, bone, and teeth images. Dataset Location: http://www.mnh.si.edu/mna/main.cfm?lang=_en Site Location: North America Sites Georefferenced: Yes Comments: Multiple user interfaces are included within this dataset. An interactive map of the continent allow users...MORE

Avian Knowledge Network

This web site hosts time series data sets from hundreds of independent projects aiming to understand the patterns and dynamics of bird populations across the western hemisphere. In particular, eBird connects remote-sensed data of landscape variables and human population to species ocurrence. Each data set consists of observational data, the...MORE

Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS)

FAUNMAP

Geographic information on the distribution of late Quaternary mammals of the U.S. Dataset Location: http://www.museum.state.il.us/research/faunmap/aboutfaunmap.html Site(s) Georeferenced: Yes Data collection summary/Methods: Data gathered from the literature Data Available: Information on site names and numbers, location, relative and absolute chronologies, including cultural associations, depositional systems, taphonomic attributes, and mammal species from...MORE