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North Temperate Lakes LTER Data Catalog

This web site hosts data collected at the North Temperate Lakes LTER in Wisconsin since at least 1981 organized by the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin. Data Location: http://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/datacatalog/search Site Location: Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, and other lakes in the Yahara Lake District, southern Wisconsin; Trout Lake,...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

Australian Institute of Marine Science – Long-term monitoring Program: Visual Census Fish Data (Great Barrier Reef)

Data description: http://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=4035 (See also Sweatman et al. 2008 Long-term Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef status report No. 8) Dataset link: http://www.iobis.org/mapper/?dataset=233 Direct download: OBIS Web Service Initial issues Scale. Data downloaded from IOBIS has unique lat-longs which are presumably reef-level data. In theory, there are 5 transects within...MORE

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 Information is assimilated from a variety of sources including unpublished data sets and data digitised from journal...MORE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

Marine Nature Conservation Review Benthos Data

The MNCR was initiated to provide a comprehensive baseline of information on marine habitats and their associated species around the coast of Britain focusing on benthic habitats in intertidal and inshore (typically within 3nm) subtidal areas. This dataset includes the survey data that were collected during the Marine Nature Conservation...MORE

US GAP Protected Areas Database for the US (PAD-US)

The USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP) PAD-US is the national inventory of U.S. terrestrial and marine protected areas that are dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreation and cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. Lands in PAD-US are mainly...MORE

Boreal Forest

Desert

Mediterranean / Chaparral

US GAP Land Cover for the US

The USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP) Land Cover Data Set includes detailed vegetation and land use patterns for the continental United States. The data set incorporates the Ecological System classification system developed by NatureServe to represent natural and semi-natural land cover. The 590 land use classes in the data set...MORE

Boreal Forest

Desert

Mediterranean / Chaparral

ECNASAP Groundfish Atlas

The East Coast North America Strategic Assessment Project (ECNASAP) makes their Groundfish Atlas data available at OBIS . Data includes fishery-independent groundfish observations. The OBIS compiled data includes species name, individual count, lat/lon, and some environmental correlates like depth and salinity. Dataset Location: OBIS ECNASAP Groundfish Atlas Direct Download: OBIS...MORE