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Rain Forest Vertebrates of Australia

242 vertebrate species are described within this datset including information on life history traits, species distribution maps and phylogenetics. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Australian Wet Tropics, northeastern Queensland (between -16.5 - 19.5 o N) Sites Georefferenced: Output includes GPS layers Methods: Life history attributed were acquired from individual...MORE

Tropical Forest

Amphibians / Reptiles

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

Boreal Forest

Desert

Mediterranean / Chaparral

Amphibians / Reptiles

Arctic LTER

This web site hosts data collected at the Arctic Long Term Ecological Research Station at the Toolik Field Station in Alaska. Data Location: http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/ARC/ Site Location: Toolik Field Station (68 o 38'N, 148 o 43'W), foothills region of the Brooks Range, North Slope of Alaska Datasets Available: THEME - lakes,...MORE

California Current Ecosystem LTER

This web site hosts data collected at the California Current coastal pelagic ecosysten Long Term Ecological Research Station. Data Location: http://cce.lternet.edu/data/ Site Location: Datasets Available: THEMES - phytoplankton, chlorophyl and primary production; zooplankton abundance/biomassMORE

Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER

This web site hosts data from the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research station on the Altamhaha, Doboy, and Sapelo Sounds. Dataset Location: http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/public/app/data_catalog.asp Site Location: Altamhaha, Doboy, and Sapelo Sounds; coast of Georgia, U.S.A. Datasets Available: THEMES - algal productivity; aquatic invertebrate ecology; bacterial productivity; general nutrient chemistry;...MORE

Luquillo LTER

This web site hosts data from the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research Network from both tropical forest and metropolis ecosystems of Puerto Rico. Dataset Location: http://luq.lternet.edu/data/ Site Location: Luquillo Mountains (San Juan) of Puerto Rico Datasets Available: THEMES - meteorology; hydrology; disturbance; nutrient and carbon dynamics; vegetation dynamics; animal population...MORE

Tropical Forest

Freshwater

Amphibians / Reptiles

Breeding Bird Census

Spot-mapping data for birds combined with information on the local vegetation. This includes information on the number and position of singing males and breeding pairs, as well as information on the number of nests and fledglings. Plots vary in scale from 10 hectares (in closed habitats) to 40 hectares (in...MORE

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