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Christmas Bird Count

The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a long-standing program of the National Audubon Society, with over 100 years of citizen science involvement. It is an early-winter bird census, where thousands of volunteers across the US, Canada and many countries in the Western Hemisphere, go out over a 24 hour period...MORE

Birds

Plant quadrats in mixed-grass prairie

Quadrats (36 ungrazed; 15 grazed) in a Kansas mixed grass prairie that were censused annually from 1932 to 1972. Located in Hays, Kansas, all individual plants were mapped in these 1 m 2 quadrats located in a pasture owned by Fort Hays State University. Monthly precipitation and average temperature data...MORE

PanTHERIA

A global species-level data set of key life-history, ecological and geographical traits of all known extant and recently extinct mammals compiled from the literature. It also includes spatial databases of mammalian geographic ranges and global climatic and anthropogenic variables. Ecological Level: Species Biome: All Location: Global Observational/Experimental: Observational Dataset Location:...MORE

Mammals

Vascular Plants of an Oklahoma Tallgrass Prairie

This dataset describes 12 years of vascular plant composition at the Tallgrass Prairie Reserve in Oklahoma measured at multiple spatial scales at a local level. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Osage County, Oklahoma (36.73 o - 36.90 o N, 96.32 o - 96.49 o W) Sites...MORE

Sagebrush Steppe Plants

This dataset descibes apporximately 50 years of sagebrush vegetatation in 26 permanent 1m 2 quadrats. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: U.S. Sheep Experiment Station, Dubois, Idaho Sites Georefferenced: No Timespan: 1923-1957 (most years), 1973 Sampling Frequency: Annually Methods: 26 permanent quadrats were established in sheep paddocks with grazed and...MORE

Barnacle, fucoid, and mussel recruitment

This data set describes differences in macroalgal stands and mussel beds between ice scour disturbances in sheltered intertidal shores between 1997-2007. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Swan's Island, Maine (44 o 10' N, 68 o 25' W) Sites Georeferenced: No Timespan: 1997-2007 Sampling Frequency: Annually Methods: Barnacle recruitment was...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

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Growth of Giant Kelp in California

This dataset describes variation in net primary production and growth of giant kelp in the Santa Barbara Channel, California. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Arroyo Quemado (34 o 28.127' N, 120 o 07.285' W), Arroyo Burro (34 o 24.007' N, 119 o 44.663' W), and Mohawk (34 o 23.660'...MORE

Understory Vegetation of Quebec

This dataset contains nine years (1998-2006) of understory vegetation sampling along an elevation gradient in a recovering forest in Quebec from logging and fire disturbance. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Station de Biologie des Laurentides, St. Hippolyte, Quebec, Canada (46 o 58' - 46 o 01' N, 73 o...MORE

Old-growth Lowland Tropical Rain Forest Tree Performance

This dataset follows a lowland tropical rain forest for 17 years in Costa Rica. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives (1983-1993) , Ecological Archives Update (1993-2000) Site Location: La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica (10 o 26' N, 83 o 59' W) Sites Georefferenced: Yes Timespan: 1983 - 2000 Sampling Frequency: annually...MORE