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Alwyn H. Gentry Forest Transect Dataset

Over 22 years, Alwyn H. Gentry collected data from 226 sites on six continents. Gentry and his collaborators collected all plants with stem diameters equal to or exceeding 2.5 cm diameter at breast height (dbh) along ten 2 x 50 m transects, totaling 0.1 hectare at each site. Ecological Level:...MORE

Paleobiology Database

This web site hosts information about the entire fossil record, including information about fossil collections, individual plants and animals, taxonomic groups, references to publications, stratigraphic units, time scales, and time intervals. Data Location: paleobiodb.org Data Available: collection, occurrence, specimen records, taxonomic names/opinion, measurements of specimens Comments: Tools are available on...MORE

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Bonanza Creek LTER

This web site hosts data gathered at the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Station in the interior of Alaska. Data Location: http://www.lter.uaf.edu/data_b.cfm Site Location: Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest, Caribou Poker Creeks Research Watershed, Fairbanks, Alaska Datasets Available: THEMES - biogeochemistry, biological diversity, climate, decomposition, disturbance, GIS, human dimensions, hydrology,...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

Tree Demography of India Dipterocarp Forest

This dataset contains twenty years (1990-2010) of tree demography in a permanent sample plot containing 3870 Dipterocarp species in the Pushpagiri Wildlife Sannctuary of India's Western Ghats. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Uppangala Permanant Sample Plots, Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary ( 12°35′N , 75°40′E ) Sampling Frequency: 3-5 years (1990-1993,...MORE

Forest Stand Structure of the cental Western Ghats

This dataset contains a single sampling of trees and lianas in 22000 km 2 of Karnataka, India. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: central Western Ghats region, Karnataka, India (74 o 15' - 75 o 40' E; 15 o 15' - 13 o 30' N) Sites Georefferenced: Yes Timespan: 1996-1997...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

Canopy Height and Elevation of a Neotropical Rain Forest

Using airborne remote sensing, this dataset characterizes the canopy height of a tropical rain forest landscape. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Tropical Wet Forest,, Atlantic lowlands, Costa Rica; Includes La Selva Biological Station and Braulio Carrillo National Park Sites Georeffereneced: Yes Sampling Period: 13-14 March 2006 Methods: LiDar was...MORE

Old-growth Lowland Tropical Rain Forest Tree Performance

This dataset follows a lowland tropical rain forest for 17 years in Costa Rica. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives (1983-1993) , Ecological Archives Update (1993-2000) Site Location: La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica (10 o 26' N, 83 o 59' W) Sites Georefferenced: Yes Timespan: 1983 - 2000 Sampling Frequency: annually...MORE

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

This data set was collected by the Center for Tropical Forest Science at the Smithsonian research facilities in the Panama Canal Watershed, including forest census, carbon storage, wood density, soil, plant functional traits, and arthpod monitoring. Dataset Location: http://www.ctfs.si.edu/group/Resources/Data Site Location: Barro Colorado Island, Panama(9.154 O N, 79.846 O W);...MORE