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This dataset compares avian body sizes with mating characteristics for 3769 species. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Western Palearctic, North America, Africa, Austrailia, New Zealand, Antarctica Sites Georeferenced: No Methods: Data was gathered from major ornithologial handbooks, suplemented by authors personal data. Behavioral scores are described within the metadata...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
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
Database including information on distribution, taxonomy, and synonyms for birds. Data location: http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/ Uses: Of particular interest is the tool for comparing two differt checklists. This provides information to help combine datasets that are based on different taxonomies, and the determine what has changed from one version of the taxonomy...MORE
Global plant species richness data from Ellis, E. C., E. C. Antill, and H. Kreft. 2012. All is not loss: plant biodiversity in the Anthropocene. PLoS ONE 7:e30535. Online Appendices (in one .zip file) *Detailed methods *Global statistics (Excel file) *Supplementary Maps Maps in Shapefile format (in one .zip file)...MORE