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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

Forest Stand Structure of the cental Western Ghats

This dataset contains a single sampling of trees and lianas in 22000 km 2 of Karnataka, India. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: central Western Ghats region, Karnataka, India (74 o 15' - 75 o 40' E; 15 o 15' - 13 o 30' N) Sites Georefferenced: Yes Timespan: 1996-1997...MORE

Kelp holdfast assemblages

This dataset describes the biodiversity of fauna (including Arthropoda, Annelida, Mollusca, and Bryozoa) inhabiting kelp holdfasts in northeastern New Zealand at several spatial scales: from meters up to hundreds of kilometers. Dataset Location: Available from author upon request Site Location(s): Berghan Point (34°55.78′ S, 173°32.72′ E), Home Point (35°19.38′ S,...MORE

First-Flowering of Plants in the Great Plains

This dataset describes first-flowering dates of native and non-native plant species from 1910 -1961 in Fargo, North Dakota. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: North Dakota State University (46 o 53.423 N, 96 o 47.886 W), Bluesem Prairie Nature Preserve (46 o 51.458 N, 96 o 28.211 W) Sites Georefferenced:...MORE

Canopy Height and Elevation of a Neotropical Rain Forest

Using airborne remote sensing, this dataset characterizes the canopy height of a tropical rain forest landscape. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Tropical Wet Forest,, Atlantic lowlands, Costa Rica; Includes La Selva Biological Station and Braulio Carrillo National Park Sites Georeffereneced: Yes Sampling Period: 13-14 March 2006 Methods: LiDar was...MORE

Mammal abundance of the Great Basin

This dataset follows coyotes, lagomorphs, and rodents from 1962-1993 in Idaho and Utah. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho; Curlew Valley, Utah Sites Georefferenced: No Timespan: 1962-1993 Sampling Frequency: biannually (spring & fall) Methods: Rodents were trapped with a 1 M-4 snap trap...MORE

Coastal Ecology of the Virginian Biogegraphic Province

This dataset describes water quality and aquatic communities for estuaries, bays, and tidal rivers between Cape Cod, MA and Cape Henry, VA. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Virginian Biogeographic Province Sites Georefferenced: No Timespan: 1990-1993 Sampling Frequency: annually Methods: Sampling stations (Fig. 1) were systematically randomly sampled from estuary...MORE

US Land Cover

This dataset contains maps of land cover patterns across the conterminous United States. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Lower 48, United Stated Sites Georeffereneced: Yes Timespan: 1991-1993 Methods: Images were collected from Landsat Thematic Mapper at a 30 m resolution and classified to land cover type and spatial filters...MORE

Mediterranean / Chaparral

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

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

This data set was collected by the Center for Tropical Forest Science at the Smithsonian research facilities in the Panama Canal Watershed, including forest census, carbon storage, wood density, soil, plant functional traits, and arthpod monitoring. Dataset Location: http://www.ctfs.si.edu/group/Resources/Data Site Location: Barro Colorado Island, Panama(9.154 O N, 79.846 O W);...MORE