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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
This dataset contains over 16,000 records or a consumer body size and its resources. Dataset Location: Ecological Data Site Location: United Kingdom, United States, Antarctica Sites Georefferenced: Yes (not all entries) Data Collected: body size, taxonomy, location, habitat, feeding interaction, metabolism Best practices: Error code -999. Additional considerations: These data...MORE
This dataset compiles body mass of all known mammals across geographic and taxonomic space and evolutionary time. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Methods: Data was collected from more than 150 pre-established sources. Data Collected: species, averaged body mass Orders: Artiodactyla (280 records), Bibymalagasia (2 records), Carnivora (393 records), Cetacea (75 records),...MORE
This data set compiles information regarding the biomass of leaf, stem, and root biomass for plants. Dataset Location: http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=703 Sites Georeferenced: No Methods: Data was compiled from the primary literature, along with a significant portion of data from Cannell (1982). Data Collected: species; age; height; leaf, root, shoot, stem &...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
A species list of marine organisms, with current taxonomic information, including any synonomies that might exist. Can search by geographic region. Dataset available here: http://www.marinespecies.org/index.php Available with CC-BY license, cite individual pages as listed on those pages. Suggested citation for entire database: Boxshall, G.; Mees, J.; Costello, M. J.; Hernandez,...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
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
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

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