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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 data compiled from natural history museums and other biodiversity institutions to establish a global network of fish records. Data Location: FishNet 2 Sites Georefferenced: Yes Comments: Data is searchable by taxon and location [ HERE ]. FishNet is part of the VertNet cooperative data network. Example...MORE
This web site hosts data compiled from 17 North American Institutions about taxonimic and geographic records of mammals. Data Location: MaNIS Sites Georefferenced: Yes Comments: Data are searchable by specimen record, taxonomic index, and geographic index [ HERE ]. MaNIS is part of the VertNet cooperative data network. Example Citation:...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
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
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
This dataset compiles brain and body weight, life span, gestation time, time sleeping, and predation and danger indices for 62 mammals. Dataset Location: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/sleep Comments: Overall time spent sleeping is broken down into slow-wave and paradoxical sleep. Citation: Allison, Truett and Cicchetti, Domenic V. (1976), "Sleep in Mammals: Ecological and...MORE
Please see details in the cited publication. In addition to the presence absence data, there are also photos of each subplot from 2005 onward. Nelis, L.C. and J.T. Wootton, Treatment-based Markov chain models clarify mechanisms of invasion in an invaded grassland community. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series...MORE
The MNCR was initiated to provide a comprehensive baseline of information on marine habitats and their associated species around the coast of Britain focusing on benthic habitats in intertidal and inshore (typically within 3nm) subtidal areas. This dataset includes the survey data that were collected during the Marine Nature Conservation...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