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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

Powdermill Biological Station Small Mammal Database

Powdermill Nature Reserve monitored small mammal populations from 1979-1999.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

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

Long-term Canopy Dynamics in an Old-Growth Forest

This dataset follows the canopy dynamics of an old growth forest in northern Michigan. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Dukes Research Natural Area, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan (46 o 02' N, 87 o 09' W) Sites Georefferenced: No Timespan: 1935 - 2004; stem mapping starts 1989 Sampling Frequency: various,...MORE

Vascular Plants of the North Carolina Piedmont Forest

This dataset uses a forest community to assess the effects of scale on plant biodiversity as well as the effect of a huricane disturbance. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Oosting Natural Area, Duke Forest, North Carolina (79.057 o W, 35.976 o N) Sites Georefferenced: No Timespan: 1989-1998 Sampling Frequency:...MORE

Understory Vegetation of Quebec

This dataset contains nine years (1998-2006) of understory vegetation sampling along an elevation gradient in a recovering forest in Quebec from logging and fire disturbance. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Station de Biologie des Laurentides, St. Hippolyte, Quebec, Canada (46 o 58' - 46 o 01' N, 73 o...MORE

Mammalian Life History

This dataset compiles general life history characteristics for various taxa and body size groups of placental non-volant mammals. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Methods: Data was collected from the literature. Values for life history characteristics are averages of numerous individuals/studies to acount for variability of traits due to climate or evironmental...MORE

Global Wood Density

This data set decribes wood density for trees throughout the globe, including >16000 entries of >8000 taxa from 205 references. Dataset Location: Dryad Sites Georefferenced: No Data Collected: species, wood density, region Citation: Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann...MORE

Animal Movement (Movebank)

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

Amphibians / Reptiles