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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

Global Pollen Database

This web site hosts data from pollen grains which are accumulated in lakebed sediments and provide records of past vegetation. Data Location: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/gpd.html Datasets Available: Data is organized by collection location: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, North Atlantic Ocean, South America Comments: An additional search engine is provided [...MORE

Neogene Mammals of the Old World (NOW)

This website hosts data containing information about land mammal taxa and locality from the Eurasian Miocene to the Pleistocene. Data Location: http://www.helsinki.fi/science/now/ Data Available: species; location (age, stratigraphy, lithology, taphonomy, environmental interpretation); anatomy; inferred diet; locomotion Comments: Instructions for acquiring the data can be found [ HERE ]. Citation: Fortelius,...MORE

Fossil

Mammals

Global

Early and Middle Triassic Benthic Foraminifers

This data set describes taxonomic diversity and size distibution of benthic foraminifers from a carbonate platform in south China. Dataset Location: Dryad Site Location: Guizhou Province, China Sites Georefferenced: No Data Collected: genus, species, size, substage, age, environment Citation: Payne JL, Summers M, Rego BL, Altiner D, Wei J, Yu...MORE

FAUNMAP

Geographic information on the distribution of late Quaternary mammals of the U.S. Dataset Location: http://www.museum.state.il.us/research/faunmap/aboutfaunmap.html Site(s) Georeferenced: Yes Data collection summary/Methods: Data gathered from the literature Data Available: Information on site names and numbers, location, relative and absolute chronologies, including cultural associations, depositional systems, taphonomic attributes, and mammal species from...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

Portal Long Term Desert Plant, Ant, and Rodent Manipulation

This dataset describes long-term (1977-2002) experimental manipulations of ant, plant and rodent species in a desert ecosystem, among other alterations to the system. Data Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Chihuahuan Desert, near Portal, Arizona (31 o 56' 20.29" N, 109 o 4' 47.44" W) Sites Georeferenced: Yes (not part of...MORE

EcoData Retriever ready

Animal Movement (Movebank)

This web site stores global data to track the movement of animals. Data Location: http://www.movebank.org/ Sites Georefferenced: Yes Data Available: species, location Citation: Wikelski, M., and Kays, R. 2010. Movebank: archive, analysis and sharing of animal movement data. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.movebank.org , Accessed on <date>.MORE

Amphibians / Reptiles

Sevilleta LTER

This web site hosts data collected at the Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Reasearch Station in New Mexico. Data Location: http://sev.lternet.edu/ Site Location: Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge (34.353 o N, 106.882 o W), about 80km south of Albuquerque, NM. Datasets Available: THEMES - disturbance, inorganic nutrients, meteorology, populations, organic matter, primary...MORE

Desert

Amphibians / Reptiles

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