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NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network)

Via NEON's overview page: Data will be collected from 106 sites (60 terrestrial, 36 aquatic and 10 aquatic experimental) across the U.S. (including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico) using instrument measurements and field sampling. NEON will combine site-based data with remotely sensed data and existing continental-scale data sets (e.g. satellite...MORE

Boreal Forest

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Mediterranean / Chaparral

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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

Avibase

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

Land Condition Trend Analysis Avian Database: Ecological Guild-based Summaries

This report documents an... "LCTA database update that provides selected ecological attributes (particularly for the nesting season) for 676 bird species occurring within the continental United States. This database upgrade provides land managers the capability to: (1) generate ecological guild-based summaries with no additional fieldwork, (2) identify specific groups of...MORE

Boreal Forest

Desert

Mediterranean / Chaparral

eBird

eBird is a catalog of 'checklists' for bird species observed globally by novice and experienced bird observers reporting to the eBird Citizen Science Project run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. 'Checklists' include presence/absence, species count, and location information for a single obervation event. Four...MORE

Continuous Plankton Recorder

The Continuous Plankton Recorder is a device developed by Sir Alister Hardy in 1931. Since then, his effort has been standardized and continued by the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science . Research and merchant ships are equiped with a planton recording device that is towed near-surface for up...MORE

Birdlife global species range maps for birds

BirdLife/Naturserve range maps for all of the bird species in the world (> 10,000 species). Data is available by request. Data location: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/info/spcdownloadMORE

New Zealand NIWA Biological Obervations

New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Marine Biodata is available at OBIS ; includes occurrence details of New Zealand marine fauna and flora from around the coastline and offshore. Information is assimilated from a variety of sources including unpublished data sets and data digitised from journal...MORE

South West Pacific OBIS Data

The South West Pacific OBIS section provides a compilation of their data available at OBIS ; The South West Pacific section of OBIS is administered by the New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research that includes surveys of fish, invertebrates, and algea. The OBIS dataset includes species name,...MORE

Northeast Fisheries Science Center Benthic Database

Northeast Fisheries Science Center ( NEFSC ) Benthic Database is available at OBIS ; Original data includes depth, sediment type, gear type, number, weight, family, class, genus, species name, and abundance compiled from work by Wigley and Theroux on the macrofauna of the Northeastern United States and other major studies...MORE