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Jornada Basin LTER

This web site hosts data from the Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research Network in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Dataset Location: http://jornada-www.nmsu.edu/datacat.php Site Location: northern Chihuahuan Desert, 25 km northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico Datasets Available: THEMES - animal (birds, rabbits, lizards, ants, arthropods,grass hoppers, small mammals, spiders, termites,...MORE

Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

This is a paper published in PNAS about patterns of decilne in North American bumble bees that is quite broad in scope (netted and identified 9,006 bumble bees in the west and 7,832 in the east at 382 sites across North America between 2007 and 2009 and constructed a database...MORE

Neotoma Paleoecological Database

This website and database hosts records of fossil pollen, charcoal, and mammal assemblages, as well as plant macrofossils, largely from North America, but also globally, throughout the Pleiocene-Quaternary (and Anthropocene). Also included are chronological controls that allow the use of the records through time from the last 5 million years...MORE

US GAP Species Ranges and Distributions

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

Boreal Forest

US GAP Protected Areas Database for the US (PAD-US)

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

Boreal Forest

Luquillo Dataset 107: El Verde Grid Invertebrate Data

El Verde Grid Invertebrate Data is a long-term observational study of the snail community at the Luquillo LTER on Puerto Rico. Ecological Level: Community Biome: Tropical Habitat : Forest. 4 different "cover classes" on the plot, categorized by historical human use intensity (more details in Thompson et al. 2002). Location:...MORE

Tropical Forest

Invertebrates

Time series

Rain Forest Vertebrates of Australia

242 vertebrate species are described within this datset including information on life history traits, species distribution maps and phylogenetics. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Australian Wet Tropics, northeastern Queensland (between -16.5 - 19.5 o N) Sites Georefferenced: Output includes GPS layers Methods: Life history attributed were acquired from individual...MORE

Tropical Forest

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

Luquillo LTER

This web site hosts data from the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research Network from both tropical forest and metropolis ecosystems of Puerto Rico. Dataset Location: http://luq.lternet.edu/data/ Site Location: Luquillo Mountains (San Juan) of Puerto Rico Datasets Available: THEMES - meteorology; hydrology; disturbance; nutrient and carbon dynamics; vegetation dynamics; animal population...MORE

Tropical Forest

Freshwater