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This web site hosts millions of bird specimen records indexed by taxonomy and georgraphy. Data Location: ORNIS Data Georefferenced: Yes Comments: This data repository compiles data from 42 institutions and 5 countries and provides a search engine for searching by specimen record, taxonomic index, and geographic index [ HERE ],...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
This web site hosts a search engine for the United States Long Term Ecological Research Network. Data Location: http://metacat.lternet.edu/das/lter/advancedsearch.jsp Comments: Search by LTER station, subject, title, abstract, keywords, author, organization, geographic location, taxon. The LTER network continually produce data on primary productivity, organic matter, inorganic nutrients, disturbance, and populations for...MORE
This web site hosts data from the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research Station in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Data Location: http://coweeta.uga.edu/datacatalog Site Location: Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, southern Appalachian Mountains Comment: The data repository and search engine are currently being developed. For the time being, data are stored at EcoTrends and...MORE
This web site hosts data from the Harvard Forest as a part of the Long Term Ecological Research Network. Dataset Location: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/archive.html Site Location: Petersham, Massachusetts Datasets Available: THEMES - biodiversity studies; conservation and management; ecological informatics and modeling; forest-atmosphere exchange; historical and retrospective studies; international research projects; invasive plants,...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
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
Includes all Neotropical stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponini) species, with trait data collected from the literature and unpublished data. Traits include worker body size, colony size, nest description, foraging strategy, aggressiveness, flight range, etc. All data entered have been matched to current species names, following the Moure catalog ( http://moure.cria.org.br/index...MORE
The USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) monitors the influence of climate on the phenology of plants, animals, and landscapes. We do this by encouraging people to observe phenological events like leaf out, flowering, migrations, and egg laying, and by providing a place for people to enter, store, and share their...MORE
A large compilation of empirical data on how traits respond to environmental drivers. Dataset Location: The dataset is available both online where selected data for individual populations can be downloaded one at a time and as a Data Paper in Ecological Archives providing access to the entire dataset in one...MORE